Global markets climb on virus recovery despite US meltdown
European shares climb to highest since early March as markets focus on global economic reopening and ignore US and US-China tensions
02 June 2020 - 12:26
London — World stocks climbed towards three-month highs on Tuesday as the global coronavirus recovery effort won out over US-China tensions and the worst civil unrest in the US in decades.
US President Donald Trump’s vow to use force to end violent protests in American cities and reports that China had ordered US soybean purchases to be halted had checked Asia overnight, but Europe got the bulls back on track...
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