1541 GMT - European software companies' shares fall Monday as artificial-intelligence fears continue to weigh on sentiment. Shares in data vendors--which were among those first hit by AI-driven selling earlier this month--fall after some showed signs of recovery in the last session. RELX falls 1.9% after climbing 10% Friday, with the stock down 28% over the last month. Data vendor peers Experian and Wolters Kluwer slip 2% and 2.7%, respectively, with the pair down 24% and 27.5% over the past month. A broader basket of European software stocks is down 1.35% Monday, and down 20.1% for the year. Major software players Capgemini and SAP are down 2.4% and 1.3% respectively. Sage falls 2.4% in London.(josephmichael.stonor@wsj.com)
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February 16, 2026 10:41 ET (15:41 GMT)
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