UPDATE 2-Positive trade cues help European stocks wrap up dour week on an upbeat note

* STOXX 600 suffers first weekly loss in 7-wks
* Trump says deal "potentially very close" - Fox News
* Trade sensitive miners lead gains among sub-sectors
* German, French business sentiment improves in Nov.

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By Sruthi Shankar and Sagarika Jaisinghani
Nov 22 (Reuters) - European shares logged their best day in
three weeks on Friday, as upbeat data out of major eurozone
economies, as well as positive rhetoric on a U.S.-China trade
deal, ended a dour week on a positive note.
The trade sensitive European miners .SXPP jumped nearly
2%, erasing nearly all losses from earlier this week. All but
one of the European sub-sectors ended higher.
U.S. President Donald Trump said a trade deal with China is
"potentially very close". Beijing had said earlier it wanted to
work out an initial agreement with Washington, following reports
that a truce could be delayed to 2020. The pan-European STOXX 600 .STOXX index ended 0.4% higher
but still snapped a six-week winning streak as recent mixed
signals on trade clouded the sentiment.
Earlier in the day, separate surveys showed business
activity picked up slightly in France this month while German
business conditions continued to deteriorate in November,
although more slowly than recently. Reports from both economies, came as a relief to investors
even as another survey showed European PMI slipped in November,
narrowly missing a contraction. "Despite a little slippage of the composite index, the
Eurozone PMIs add to the growing number of indicators that
suggest the downturn in global trade and manufacturing is
approaching the bottom," said Berenberg economist Florian Hense.
"Both domestic and export orders are sending green shoots
with the decline in Germany easing and the gains in France
picking up."
However, in Britain, a survey showed business this month
suffered its deepest downturn since mid-2016 as the approach of
a national election exacerbated uncertainty about Brexit,
causing a sharp fall in the pound. Sterling's losses helped London's exporter-heavy FTSE 100
.FTSE post its best day in nearly four months. FRX/
Among stocks, Italian broadcaster Mediaset MS.MI rose more
than 2% after sources told Reuters that French media group
Vivendi VIV.PA is prepared to sell part of its stake in the
firm at a loss in an attempt to reach a deal to end years of
bitter legal disputes. French pre-paid meal vouchers and card provider Edenred
EDEN.PA dropped 2.4% after announcing a cyber attack on its
information technology system.
Umicore UMI.BR slid nearly 4% as Bank of America Merrill
downgraded the Belgian materials and technology group to
"neutral"