Wall Street stocks advanced and gold prices surged ever upward on Thursday. Photograph: Spencer Platt/Getty Images
European stocks advanced on Thursday as investors took largely upbeat corporate earnings to heart amid easing political tensions after French prime minister Sébastien Lecornu survived a confidence vote. The pan-European Stoxx 600 index rose 0.45 per cent.
Wall Street stocks advanced and gold prices surged ever upward on Thursday as solid corporate earnings helped investors look past simmering trade tensions between the United States and China.
All three major US stock indexes followed their European counterparts to modest gains, while safe-have
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