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Like the European stock markets, Wall Street soared Monday, gaining more than 4% in response to the coordinated action announced by the major central banks to maintain liquidity in markets shaken by the debt crisis, a measure that removes the specter of a global recession.
The Dow Jones industrials gained 30 4.24% or 490.05 points at 12,045.68. The S & P-500, wider, took 51.77 points, or 4.33% to 1246.96.
People's Bank of China (PBC) also supported the rating, reducing the reserve requirement ratio for the first time in nearly three years to ease tensions in the credit market and to give back up to an economy that knows its lowest growth rate maintained since 2009.
Investors were also reassured by the larger than expected number of jobs created in the U.S. private sector – 206 000 130 000 in November against expected – and one PMI purchasing managers in the Chicago area well above expectations.
- New tightening of the Chinese Central Bank
- The Dow Jones gained 0.07% Nasdaq 0.86% yield
- Wall Street ended down 0.38%, the fragile recovery worries
- The Tokyo Stock Exchange to its lowest level since the post-earthquake
- Wall Street opens higher after Bernanke and statistics