India, April 17 -- European stocks drifted lower on Thursday as investors fretted about the impact of U.S. President Donald Trump's erratic trade policies on inflation, interest rates and global growth.
Traders also assessed the latest batch of earnings and awaited the ECB rate decision later in the day for directional cues.
The pan European STOXX 600 was down half a percent at 504.53 after falling 0.2 percent on Wednesday.
The German DAX, France's CAC 40 and the U.K.'s FTSE 100 were down between 0.3 percent and 0.6 percent ahead of a four-day-long weekend on account of Good Friday and Easter Monday.
Hexagon AB, a digital reality solutions company, fell nearly 2 percent after it agreed to buy UCRS software assets from CONET Communicatio...