European shares inch higher as financials rise <!-- no image --> <div>European shares edged higher on Wednesday, boosted by financial stocks, as investors parsed through a mixed bag of earnings reports and awaited new developments on trade talks between the United States and China.<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/UKBankingFinancial?a=fWZ6OiSQqPo:vEt5O1Oxy4I:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/UKBankingFinancial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></a> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/UKBankingFinancial?a=fWZ6OiSQqPo:vEt5O1Oxy4I:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/UKBankingFinancial?i=fWZ6OiSQqPo:vEt5O1Oxy4I:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></a> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/UKBankingFinancial?a=fWZ6OiSQqPo:vEt5O1Oxy4I:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/UKBankingFinancial?i=fWZ6OiSQqPo:vEt5O1Oxy4I:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/UKBankingFinancial/~4/fWZ6OiSQqPo" height="1" width="1" alt=""></div> Posted by Reuters