European equities FTSE,CAC and DAX gained

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European equities like the FTSE , CAC and DAX rose, as banks were encouraged by positive results from US lender Citigroup. Banks were among the biggest gainers, buoyed by better-than-forecast quarterly profit at Citigroup, European banks Barclays, HSBC and Societe Generale were up at the end of the day.While oil majors drew support from a rally in crude prices to above $82 as the dollar pared earlier gains.FTSE Index, DAX Index & CAC Index were bright between 0.1 to 0.3 percent respectively.