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Article content LONDON — Global stocks ground higher while oil ebbed on Thursday as investors diverged over whether to bet on economic recovery in the United States and other developed markets or worry about a surge in COVID-19 cases in India and elsewhere. With vaccination rates rising and pandemic-weary citizens embracing more freedoms to drive growth in some major economies, MSCI’s broadest global gauge of stocks was up 0.3%, trading within 1% of its all-time closing high after a recent ...

by Tyler Durden Thursday, Apr 22, 2021 - 08:14 AM U.S. index futures traded flat on Thursday morning, rebounding from some early weakness ahead of todays ECB meeting, as investors assessed earnings from companies, including Southwest Airlines and AT&T, while awaiting weekly jobless claims data for clues on the pace of recovery in the U.S. labor market. Treasury yields steadied near a five-week low. At 7:30 a.m. ET, Dow e-minis were down 15 points, or 0.04%, S&P 500 e-minis were down 5 points, o...

Tech indices ONE of the main theme investors, industry players and analysts are telling themselves is that stay-at-home orders because of the pandemic have accelerated the usage of technology. A question that is hogging the investment world these days is whether the lofty valuations of tech stocks are justified. The concern is whether the share prices of tech stocks are in for a major correction. Is this going to be a repeat of the year 2000 dot.com bubble burst? And with the Covid-19 pandemic ...

Volatility storm gives way to inflation gale Whether it’s durable or not, investors are bracing for several months of inflation angst that challenge the structure of world market positioning far more than January’s amateur stock frenzy. Amid hopes the worst of this latest pandemic wave has passed as vaccines roll out, market-based inflation expectations are creeping higher again. Some gauges from the swaps and index-linked bond market hit their highest in over two years in the United States...