European stocks downbeat on Nice attack

Europe's main stock markets fell on Friday, with sentiment hit by the fatal Nice truck attack, offsetting Wall Street records and positive Chinese data. Airlines stocks slid after a gunman on Thursday smashed a truck into a crowd in the French resort of Nice, killing at least 84 people -- in what President Francois Hollande declared a "terrorist" attack. Around 1030 GMT on Friday, London's benchmark FTSE 100 index was down 0.2 percent compared with the close on Thursday.