BANGKOK — World shares were mixed on Thursday after China rolled out more moves to try to boost its lagging stock markets by raising confidence that prices will rise. Germany’s DAX gained 0.2% to 21,300 and the CAC 40 in Paris edged 0.1% higher to 7,847.38. Britain’s FTSE 100 slipped less than 0.1% to 8,539.88.

Chinese authorities are urgently trying to shore up their sagging stock markets, where the main benchmarks have fallen 3% so far this month despite a rise in major share markets elsewhere. The news from China offered little support to MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan (.