Mining stocks power gains in Europe on recovery optimism

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European shares scaled one-year highs on Monday and mining stocks tracked a jump in copper prices as bets of more U.S. stimulus fuelled optimism around a faster global economic recovery this year.

FILE PHOTO: The German share price index DAX graph is pictured at the stock exchange in Frankfurt, Germany, February 5, 2021. REUTERS/Staff

Banks and energy stocks also climbed as a so-called “recovery trade” sparked demand for sectors that had underperformed the broader index following the coronavirus-driven crash in early 2020.Most European bourses were higher by 0846 GMT, while Asian shares hit record highs earlier in the day. [MKTS/GLOB]

“Markets remain target fixated on the Biden stimulus and vaccine rollouts as the magic panacea for the world’s pandemic ills,” said Jeffrey Halley, senior market analyst at OANDA. A recent Reuters poll found the euro zone economy was in a double-dip recession and that economists now expect GDP to contract 0.8% in the first quarter, reversing an earlier forecast for growth of 0.6%.

 

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Stimulus is a given bets are now of the inflation variety, just saying

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