Stocks mixed, China's growth slowest since 2009

Stocks were mixed on Monday. The STOXX Europe 600 fell 0.5 percent but the S&P 500 rose 0.9 percent to help push the MSCI All-Country World Index up 0.7 percent.

Tuesday saw China report that its economy grew 7.3 percent in the third quarter from the previous year, down from 7.5 percent in the previous quarter and, indeed, the slowest pace since the first quarter of 2009 in the midst of the global financial crisis.

For September data, industrial production rose 8 percent from the previous year, rebounding from a more than five year low of 6.9 percent in August. Retail sales rose 11.6 percent while fixed asset investment rose 16.1 percent in the first nine months of the year when compared to the same period last year.