Encouraging Covid-19 vaccine trials help markets
Despite the ongoing rise in global virus cases, Asian equity markets saw their biggest daily rise in over two weeks overnight
02 July 2020 - 12:23
London — World stocks rose for a fourth straight day on Thursday as encouraging coronavirus vaccine trials kept investors’ spirits up ahead of what was expected to be a record rebound in US jobs figures later.
Economists polled by Reuters expect a bumper 3-million US jobs to have been added in June on top of the 2.5-million created in May, and some generally reassuring data from both Asia and Europe this week...
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