By Shashwat Chauhan and Bansari Mayur Kamdar (Reuters) -European shares inched lower on Thursday as weakness in banking stocks and oil majors weighed, though the markets looked set for a strong finish to the year on expectations central banks could cut borrowing costs next year. The pan-European STOXX 600 slipped 0.1%. Heavyweight energy stocks eased 0.6%, tracking lower crude oil prices, while banks shed 0.5%. Susannah Streeter, head of money and markets at Hargreaves Lansdown, said Denmark’s Maersk scheduling the resumption of tankers’ passages via the Suez Canal and the Red Sea had helped t…