European stock markets fell for a second day on Wednesday, pushing world share indexes back towards their lowest in six months as concern mounts over the strength of global economic growth. Forecasts from the International Monetary Fund on Tuesday added to the sense that the world economy is still struggling to break out of the cycle of lower growth and financial trauma it has been stuck in since 2008. Stock markets have been able largely to ignore those harder realities in a three-year rally based on the flood of new dollars printed by the U.S. Federal Reserve. But with the Fed ready to end its bond-buying this month, and signs from the Japanese, Chinese and European economies less than optimistic, prices of stocks and other more growth-dependent assets have fallen steadily since mid-August. “The mood is darkening rapidly,” said Kit Juckes, a currency strategist at Societe […]