Global stocks headed for their first back-to-back gain in two weeks on continuing optimism that the deadly coronavirus pandemic may be waning in some key epicentres. While most Asian markets surged, a second day of gains in European equities put the region\u2019s benchmarks from Italy to France and Germany on course to exit a bear market. <\/p>\n
The US markets, too, were in the green. The S&P 500 was set for its biggest two-day gain in nearly two weeks, building on a 7 per cent jump on Monday, as health officials said the pandemic may kill fewer Americans than recent projections. <\/p>\n
The MSCI Asia Pacific Index climbed about 1 per cent after advancing almost 3 per cent Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Global stocks headed for their first back-to-back gain in two weeks on continuing optimism that the deadly coronavirus pandemic may be waning in some key epicentres. While most Asian markets surged, a second day of gains in European equities put the region\u2019s benchmarks from Italy to France and Germany on course to exit a bear market. The US markets, too, were in the green. The S&P 500 was set for its biggest two-day gain in nearly two weeks, building on a 7 per cent jump on Monday, as health officials said the pandemic may kill fewer Americans than recent projections. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-345864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}