osses for European stock markets picked up in late afternoon trade on Thursday amid jittery U.S. stock markets that weighed an unexpected improvement in the Philadelphia Fed manufacturing survey against disappointing results from FedEx Corp. /quotes/comstock/13*!fdx/quotes/nls/fdx (FDX 94.20, +1.81, +1.96%) . The FTSE 100 index /quotes/comstock/23i!i:ukx (UK:UKX 5,868, -14.00, -0.24%) fell 0.2% to 5,867.50, dragged down by a 2% loss for BP PLC /quotes/comstock/23s!a:bp. (UK:BP. 467.90, -8.65, -1.82%) /quotes/comstock/13*!bp/quotes/nls/bp (BP 43.85, -0.01, -0.02%) . The German DAX 30 index /quotes/comstock/30p!dax (DX:DAX 7,003, -13.48, -0.19%) fell 0.2% to 7,004.98, led by a 2.1% loss for Volkswagen AG /quotes/comstock/11e!fvow3 (DE:VOW3 126.55, -2.35, -1.82%) . The CAC 40 index /quotes/comstock/30t!i:px1 (FR:PX1 3,869, -11.33, -0.29%) fell 0.3% to 3,870.08, with banks such as Credit Agricole SA /quotes/comstock/24s!e:aca (FR:ACA 10.21, -0.19, -1.78%) off 1.6%.
