Markets in London and Frankfurt advanced in early trading. Shanghai, Tokyo and Hong Kong also gained, recovering some of their losses after three days of anxiety over the Chinese yuan's decline.
On Wall Street, the future for the benchmark Standard & Poor's 500 index was up 0.4%. That for the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.3%. Australia's S&P-ASX 200 was 0.7% higher at 6,568.10 and India's Sensex rose 1.2% to 37,146.63. Markets in Taiwan, New Zealand and Southeast Asia also advanced.The Dow dropped 0.1% to 26,007.07. The Nasdaq composite index climbed 0.4% to 7,862.83.