Hiroyuka Maruyama, Global markets CEO at Oppenheimer Lloyd in Tokyo stated Friday, “World markets climbed Thursday as investors snapped up beaten down stocks amid a higher global growth forecast from the IMF and U.S. bank State Street's robust profit forecast.” “Sentiment turned upbeat after the Dow Jones industrial average surged 274.66 points, or 2.8 percent, to 10,018.28 on Wednesday -- finishing above 10,000 for the first time since late June. The State Street profit forecast boosted financial stocks and relieved some of the worries about the upcoming quarterly earnings.”
More positive news came from the IMF raising its 2010 global growth forecast to 4.6 percent from 4.1 percent amid what it called a faster-than-
As trading got started in Europe, benchmarks in Britain and France were up about 1 percent while Germany's DAX was up 0.5 percent. Wall Street futures augured modest profit taking in the U.S. with Dow futures off 26 points, or 0.3 percent, at 9,954.
Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 stock index jumped 256.09, or 2.8 percent, to 9,535.74 and South Korea's Kospi added 1.4 percent to 1,698.64. Australia's S&P/ASX 200 climbed 2.4 percent to 4,356.70.
Elsewhere, Hong Kong's Hang Seng index rose 1 percent to 20,050.50. Benchmarks in Singapore, Indonesia, India and Taiwan were also higher while China's Shanghai Composite Index dropped slightly.
Hiroyuka Maruyama, Global markets CEO at Oppenheimer Lloyd in Tokyo continued, “Some analysts cautioned that markets are likely to stay volatile as significant doubts remain about the durability of the global economic recovery.” “There are signs from Europe to Asia to the U.S. that growth is slowing and some fear a repeat of last year's recession.”
"It's too early to tell whether the market has bottomed out because there are simply no positive changes happening on either the capital or economic level.”
