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Highlights include:
- The region’s equity indices welcomed incoming EU President Jean-Claude Junker with modest declines. The S&P Europe 350 ended June with a 0.3% loss.
- The major news of the month was provided early on by ECB, which cut its deposit rate to minus 0.1%. Pan European government yields ended the month recording all-time lows.
- An increasing chorus of warnings over a bubble in U.K. property prices provided the backdrop to stuttering British equity markets, finishing with a 1% loss in sterling terms.