Airbus SE AIR.PA rose 2.9% after Australia's Qantas Airways Ltd QAN.AX chose the European planemaker as the preferred supplier to replace its domestic fleet, switching from Boeing BA.N. "Inflation worries have been top-of-mind because of so many hot readings, so traders want a lid to be kept on it and are welcoming this hands-on approach from the Federal Reserve," said Susannah Streeter, senior investment and markets analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown. New data showed that euro zone business growth slowed more than expected in December as renewed measures to curb the Omicron coronavirus variant curtailed recovery.