LONDON (Reuters) - Shares in French carmaker Peugeot (>> PEUGEOT) rose on Thursday, with traders citing a Bloomberg News report that Peugeot could be a target for Fiat as Fiat's hopes for a deal with General Motors (>> General Motors Company) fade.

Peugeot shares were up by 3.8 percent, while Fiat was up 2.7 percent.

A spokesman for Peugeot declined to comment.

(Reporting by Sudip Kar-Gupta and Vikram Subhedar in London and Gilles Guillaume in Paris; Editing by Lionel Laurent)

Stocks treated in this article : PEUGEOT, General Motors Company, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV