India, Aug. 21 -- European stocks were little changed on Thursday as investors looked ahead to Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell's speech at the Jackson Hole symposium for hints of possible rate cuts this year.
In economic news, Eurozone manufacturing PMI unexpectedly returned to expansion in August, while the services sector activity declined, according to data from the HCOB's latest Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) Survey.
Elsewhere, the U.K.'s private sector expanded at the strongest pace in 12 months while the country's budget deficit narrowed in July to the lowest level for the month in three years, separate reports revealed.
The pan European STOXX 600 was marginally lower at 558.58 after three days of gains. The German DAX was ma...