London's FTSE 100 underperformed, falling 0.1% after the Bank of England kept borrowing costs steady. Adding to market jitters, the U.S. carried out fresh military strikes inside Iran, further escalating a five-month-old conflict and keeping global energy markets under intense scrutiny. Technology sentiment across European trading desks remained fragile following mixed mega-cap tech earnings from Wall Street and Asia. Reassuring quarterly updates from Samsung and Microsoft helped soothe broader anxieties surrounding stretched artificial intelligence valuations and soaring capital expenditure. Beyond Shell, European stock indexes drew significant localized support from an unusually heavy corporate earnings calendar.