Elsewhere, a fall in third-quarter sales at French media group Vivendi Universal was ignored in favor of sales growth of six percent at the company's telecoms business. Vivendi shares were up 2.92 percent.
But shares in Deutsche Boerse tumbled after the German stock exchange operator said it expected next year's core earnings to be around the same level as this year.
Disappointed investors drove the share price down 10.2 percent, the biggest one-day decline since October last year.
Meanwhile, an 8.8 percent drop in net attributable profit at Spanish oil and gas group Repsol worried traders who marked the share down 0.13 percent.
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