European stock markets rose Thursday after encouraging economic news more than offset any concerns generated by a downbeat U.S. economic assessment from Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke.
The FTSE 100 index of leading British shares was up 33.33 points, or 0.6 percent, at 5,247.97 while Germany's DAX rose 69.11 points, or 1.2 percent, to 6,059.49. The CAC-40 in France was 40.66 points, or 1.2 percent, higher at 3,534.58.
The advance in Europe came as something of a surprise following sizable falls on Wall Street on Wednesday, when Bernanke said that the U.S. economic outlook was "unusually uncertain."
However, U.S. stocks were …
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