{"id":411603,"date":"2021-04-23T08:41:26","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T03:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=411603"},"modified":"2021-04-23T09:13:58","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T03:43:58","slug":"global-stocks-grind-higher-on-growth-hopes-oil-ebbs-on-covid-19-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/global-stocks-grind-higher-on-growth-hopes-oil-ebbs-on-covid-19-fears\/","title":{"rendered":"Global stocks grind higher on growth hopes, oil ebbs on Covid-19 fears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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. <\/p>\n<p>With vaccination rates rising and pandemic-weary citizens embracing more freedoms to drive growth in some major economies, MSCI&#8217;s broadest global gauge of stocks was up 0.2% in early European deals, trading back within 1% of its all-time closing high after a recent mini sell-off. <\/p>\n<p>With the European Central Bank holding a policy meeting, Europe&#8217;s top indexes posted stronger gains. The broad STOXX Europe 600 was up 0.5%, also bolstered by upbeat earnings from Nestle and Volvo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s broadest global gauge of stocks was up 0.2% in early European deals, trading back within 1% of its all-time closing high after a recent mini sell-off. With the European Central Bank holding a policy meeting, Europe&#8217;s top indexes posted stronger gains. The broad [&hellip;]<\/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-411603","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\/411603","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=411603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}