Europe Factors to Watch-Shares set to inch up; Total eyed
October 21, 2014 at 01:33 AM EDT
PARIS, Oct 21 (Reuters) - European stocks were set to inch higher on Tuesday, reversing the previous session's losses as better-than-expected quarterly sales from Apple helped soothe worries over corporate earnings in both the United States and Europe. However, data showing China's economic growth slowed in the third quarter to its weakest since the 2008/09 global financial crisis, as a slumping property market dragged on manufacturing and investment, fuelled worries over flagging global gro