France monthly business survey (goods-producing industries); U.K. public sector finances; trading updates from Carnival Opening Call: Shares could be off to a shaky start in Europe on Thursday in the wake of the U.S. Federal Reserve’s more dovish pivot. In Asia, stock benchmarks mostly lost ground; Treasury yields were steady; the dollar slightly weakened; while oil slipped and gold was flat. Equities: European stocks could tread water on Thursday amid continued uncertainty about the outlook for global interest rates. “Fed officials have been downplaying the extent of dovishness in last week’s decision, with Chicago Fed President Austan Goolsbee becoming the latest to suggest the market was getting ahead of itself and pricing in too many Fed cuts next year,” LMAX…
