Investors ditch European stocks, BASF slides on profit warning
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LONDON (Reuters) - Simmering U.S-Chinese trade tensions dented European shares on Monday as investors fled risk at the start of a highly uncertain week, with Britain's parliamentary vote on Brexit also looming and chemicals stocks dented by a BASF profit warning.The pan-European STOXX 600 index fell 0.9 percent to hit a fresh two-year low, with Britain's FTSE 100 down 0.4 percent and Germany's DAX down 0.8 percent at around 0930 GMT.Oil stocks fell 1.1 percent, erasing their 2018 gains. Oil..