The pan European Stocks 600 index was up around a percent in early trade, rising for 1/5 straight session and scaling a new 10 month high in the first full day of trading since the Brexit trade deal was announced last Thursday, UK stocks jumped on the opening although they were broadly flat later in morning trade.

Hopes of an expanded US stimulus package as well as the eurozone's co vid 19 vaccination campaign also brightened prospects for global growth in 2021 travel and leisure stocks, or gains in morning deals.

German carrier Lufthansa was up over 4% while British Airways owner I A G rose around 3%.

In tech software group S A P rose over 3% to provide the biggest boost to Germany's DAX that after its unit Qualtrics International filed for a U.