- Global
stocks rose on Tuesday as European Union leaders reached a breakthrough agreement on a "shiny" $860 billion recovery fund. - Major continental European indexes surged, with the pan-European Stoxx 50 up 1.5%.
- Futures tied to the S&P 500 rose 0.7% following tech stocks leading the market higher on Monday.
- Bank of America analysts said the EU fund does not "move the needle enough for the macro given the size of the shock."
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Global stocks surged on Tuesday as investors were relieved by the European Union's sanction of a 750 billion euro ($860 billion) recovery fund.
Germany's DAX index led
Futures tied to the S&P 500 rose 0.7% after US tech stocks led the market higher on Monday.
The EU member states came out the other side of a four-day Brussels summit holding aloft a "shiny"
The recovery deal did not come without compromises as EU leaders modified the original structure by agreeing on a distribution of 390 billion euros ($446 billion) in grants and 360 billion ($641 billion) in loans.
Its original composition, which was disputed by the so-called "Frugal Four" nations, was set at 500 billion euros in grants and 250 billion in loans.
While different to the original proposed fund, the package is a welcome relief after days of squabbling between EU leaders, SpreadEx analyst Connor Campbell said in an email.
"The European indices weren't ready to look a gift horse in the mouth," he remarked.
However, analysts at Bank of America said the fresh
"The recovery fund is a recovery tool — we still lack a proper cyclical/stabilisation tool and national governments are left to deal with that on their own," the analysts wrote in a note.
The UK's FTSE 100 rose only 0.5% after falling the previous day despite positive results from AstraZeneca and Oxford University's COVID-19 vaccine trial data.
Here's the market roundup as of 12.20 p.m. in London (7.20 a.m. ET):
- Asian indexes were up with China's Shanghai Composite up 0.2%, Hong Kong's Hang Seng up 2.3%, and Japan's Nikkei up 0.7%.
- European equities were up, with Germany's DAX up 1.7%, Britain's FTSE 100 up 0.5%, and the Euro Stoxx 50 up 1.5%.
- US stocks are set to open higher. Futures underlying the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the S&P 500, and the Nasdaq rose between 0.6% and 0.8%.
- Oil prices rose, with West Texas Intermediate up 3.35% to $42.25, and Brent crude up 3.3% at $44.70.
- The benchmark 10-year Treasury yield fell to 0.61%.
- Gold rose 0.6% to $1,828 per ounce.
- Silver hit a nearly 4-year high by rising 3.6% to $20.92 per ounce.