European shares post quarterly loss as markets await French elections
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Air France-KLM drops on Barclays downgrade
Nike's dour forecast drags JD Sports, Puma
STOXX off 0.2%, clock weekly, monthly and quarterly loss
Updated at 1600 GMT
By Shristi Achar A, Shashwat Chauhan and Jesus Calero
June 28 (Reuters) - European shares gave up early gains to close lower on Friday as a drop in shares of beauty giant L'Oreal weighed, while the benchmark index clocked weekly, monthly and quarterly declines on French political uncertainties.
The pan-European STOXX 600 .STOXX closed 0.2% lower, extending losses to the fourth straight session.
The personal and household goods sector .SXQP shed 1%, dragged by a 3% fall in French beauty giantL'Oreal OREP.PA after its CEO gave a lower market growth forecast during a Fireside Chat hosted by J.P.Morgan.
The benchmark STOXX 600 recorded its first quarterly loss in three, along with a monthly and weekly decline, amid political uncertainties in France following President Emmanuel Macron's call for a snap election earlier this month.
"It's a pretty lacklustre end for a generally lacklustre quarter ... markets are very nervous about Macron's gamble," said Steve Sosnick, chief market analyst at Interactive Brokers.
France's benchmark CAC 40 index .FCHI lost 0.7%, ending 8.8% lower for the quarter, underperforming the region's bourses. The risk premium on French government bonds hit its highest since 2012. GVD/EUR
Meanwhile, an opinion poll published in newspaper Les Echos saidfar-right party National Rally (NR) further rose in its forecast and may reach as much as 37% of the popular vote, two days before the first voting round in the French parliamentaryelections.
"There is a risk of a wider European downturn stemming from France, depending on the election outcomes," said James Reilly, markets economist at Capital Economics.
Technology stocks .SX8P rose 0.4%, tracking record-setting gains on the tech-heavy Nasdaq .IXIC, as a softer inflation reading firmed bets of a September rate cut from the Federal Reserve. .N
In the continent,French consumer prices rose 2.5% year-on-year in June, in line with expectations, as per preliminary data, while Spain's EU harmonised inflation rate fell to 3.5% in the 12 months through June.
Among other stocks, Nokia NOKIA.HE added 1.5% after the Finnish firm agreed to buy Infinera Corp INFN.O in a deal with an enterprise value of $2.3 billion.
Britain's largest sportswear retailer JD Sports JD.L fell more than 5.4% after U.S. peer Nike NKE.N forecast a surprise drop in 2025 revenue, whileGerman peer Puma PUMG.DE also lost 2.5%
Air France-KLM AIRF.PA dropped 4.1%to a record low after Barclays cut the Franco-Dutch airline group to "equal-weight" from "overweight" on political uncertainty.
Finland's Fortum FORTUM.HE shed 4.6%after Goldman Sachs downgraded the utility to "sell" on limited share upside and weaker profit and investment outlooks.
Reporting by Shashwat Chauhan and Shristi Achar A in Bengaluru and Jesus Calero in Gdansk; Editing by Eileen Soreng, Nivedita Bhattacharjee and Chris Reese
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