European stocks are expected to open lower Thursday as investors react to a slide in the U.S. dollar and a renewed rally in fixed income markets following the President elect Donald Trump’s first press conference since winning the November elections. Britain’s FTSE 100 , fresh off its twelfth consecutive closing high Wednesday, is likely to drift a few points lower at the open, according to financial bookmakers IG, with similar declines called for the DAX and CAC-40 benchmarks in Germany and France.