Paris at year's high as European stocks extend gains

European markets pushed higher on Tuesday as Paris stocks reached the year's highest level and Italian banks surged, while oil prices weighed on Wall Street. Traders have registered little reaction to Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi's defeat in Sunday's referendum and subsequent resignation in the wake of recent shock votes in Britain and the United States. 2016 has already witnessed a wave of anti-establishment populism, which saw Britain vote for its EU exit and the United States elect Don