European stock markets fell on Tuesday after several sessions of muted trade.
The pan-European Stoxx 600 index closed the day down 0.4%, with most sectors finishing in the red.
Mining stocks fell 2.9% and banking stocks dropped 2%, while construction stocks shed 1.1%.
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Travel and leisure stocks bucked the trend to climb 0.5%, with U.K. hotel and restaurant group Whitbread up 4.6% after it said profits were ahead of pre-pandemic levels and announced a £300 million ($374 million) share buyback. Health care stocks rose 0.7%.
Earnings were firmly in focus, with first-quarter results coming in before the open from banks UBS — which reported a 52% net profit decline — and Santander, which saw net profit nudge higher.
Shares of both banks closed lower as investors assessed the broader economic picture. U.S. regional bank First Republic said Monday that deposits fell by 40.8% to $104.5 billion in the first quarter, worse than analysts expected. The bank added they have since stabilized.
Results also arrived from consumer goods giant Nestle, which rose 0.7%. It just beat sales estimates but flagged a 0.5% volume decline. The company said it had hiked prices by 9.8% in the quarter.
Swiss pharmaceutical firm Novartis beat sales estimates and raised its full-year earnings outlook from a "mid-to-high single digit" increase to a "high single digit to low double digit."
Meanwhile, automotive tech-maker ABB raised its full-year guidance and reported a 72% rise in net profit to $1.04 billion, ahead of a consensus estimate published by the company of $877 million.
Daimler Truck also beat earnings estimates.
U.S. markets slipped Tuesday as traders awaited earnings from Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon and Meta all due to report this week, along with first-quarter gross domestic product figures.