The pan-European Stoxx 600 ended Tuesday provisionally higher by 0.02 percent with a number of sectors trading in positive territory. Most positive sentiment was partially driven by corporate earnings.

Despite the uptick in the overall average of the Stoxx600, there was a slight bias to selling in the main markets in the U.K., Germany, France, and Italy.

Straumann was among the top-performing stocks, higher after reporting an organic sales growth of about 20 percent for the first time in 10 years. RWE ended higher by 3.6 percent after the German firm announced that it still planned to increase its dividend for the 2018 fiscal year.

Antofagasta, on the other hand, sank to the bottom of the European benchmark, down by more than 6.4 percent. The copper producer reported a 16 percent drop in core earnings in the first half of the year, compared to the same period a year ago.