European market sell-off unearthing jewels within sector rubble

Despite the major European economies exhibiting reasonable growth, European stock markets have been ...

Despite the major European economies exhibiting reasonable growth, European stock markets have been afflicted by the same batch of fears troubling developed markets around the globe. Worries over rising inflation, slowing economic growth and plummeting consumer confidence in the Anglo-Saxon economies have collectively sapped investor sentiment. The picture is notably bleak for some individual markets such as Spain and Ireland, the latter having lost almost a third of its value in the past three months on the back of construction- and banking-related weakness. There are clearly some head...