Premarket: Europe’s stocks eke out gains

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Europe’s markets looked to put a testing third quarter behind them on Monday, with both stocks and the euro ticking sideways, bond markets steady and a last-minute deal to avert a U.S. government shutdown lifting Wall Street futures. A fractional 0.2% move higher from the pan-European STOXX 600 in the face of some difficult data gave traders early hope the region could score its first three-session run of back-to-back gains since mid-August. It had lost 2.5% in Q3 amid a sharp rise in oil prices and global borrowing costs and updated euro zone September PMI data - seen as a...