European shares tread water after mixed data, earnings
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(Reuters) - European shares took a breather on Wednesday after closing at a four-year peak in the previous session, as a mixed bag of earnings reports and weak services sector data from the euro zone weighed on sentiment.Societe Generale shares rose 4.6% to a six-month high after the bank said it had set aside three-quarters of the cash needed to deliver a planned dividend payout this year.The update helped power a 1% rise in bank stocks , the most among the major European sub-sectors. The..