Europe's stock markets and fast charging currencies were left treading water on Friday (July 17).
It came as EU leaders meet in Brussels to try to hammer through a 750 billion euro or 855 billion dollar post-pandemic recovery fund. European and world equity markets were heading for their third weekly gain in a row, but they were the smallest yet.

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