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Asia shares eye all-time top on global growth cheer
Reuters via Yahoo News ^ | January 3, 2018 | Wayne Cole

Posted on 01/03/2018 3:10:28 AM PST by John W

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Asian stocks struck a fresh decade high on Wednesday as risk appetites were whetted by a bevy of upbeat manufacturing surveys that confirmed a synchronised upturn in world growth was well under way.

Activity was especially strong in Europe, lifting bond yields there and driving the euro to within a whisker of its highest in three years against a beleaguered U.S. dollar.

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1 posted on 01/03/2018 3:10:28 AM PST by John W
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To: John W

Commodities are rising as well. Oil is picking up, and gold has seen significant gains.


2 posted on 01/03/2018 3:47:12 AM PST by BlackVeil ('The past is never dead. It's not even past.' William Faulkner)
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To: John W

uptick world economic growth … obviously because of Obama; on the other hand, if it is a bad thing, because of Trump.


3 posted on 01/03/2018 4:21:55 AM PST by Redmen4ever (u)
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To: John W

Like it or not, what happened was that Trump’s election has started a major revival of the US economy. And a reviving economy “floats all boats” and starts reviving other economies around the world.


4 posted on 01/03/2018 5:15:12 AM PST by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
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