World stocks at record levels as economy pleases
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World stocks bumped along near record highs on Wednesday while investors' search for yield kept emerging market and corporate bonds closer to government debt than ever before.
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The New York Stock Exchange's benchmark Dow Jones share index trades above its record closing high.
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Sterling punched to a 14-year high against a broadly weaker dollar on Thursday, while expectations that world growth will stay strong despite a slower U.S. economy lifted global stock indexes to fresh record highs.
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Chinese stocks rose to a fresh record high Friday as foreign currency shares rebounded from losses the day before.
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Stocks rose on Thursday and the Dow climbed to an intraday record after major retailers issued reassuring monthly sales figures and outlooks, a sign consumer spending will continue to support economic growth.
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The stock market is once again poised to set new record highs, and Wall Street will be watching this week's data on the housing market to decide whether to forge ahead.
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Stocks rose sharply and the Dow industrials hit a record high on Wednesday, boosted by comments from Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke that the economy will grow moderately as inflation eases.
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Oil prices hit record highs on  Thursday, fueling gains in some energy stocks, but fears that  high power costs will dent household incomes, raise firms'  expenses and hurt global growth weighed on Asian share markets.
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Global stocks hit their highest level  in nearly four years on Thursday, boosted by a 3 percent drop  in oil prices and a rise in U.S. stocks to multi-year peaks,  though most Asian share markets were trapped in narrow ranges.
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Investor's Business Daily - Energy companies led Chinese stocks to a record high Friday. Turnover in Hong Kong was the second-highest ever.
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The Dow Jones index ends at a new record high of 12,765, beating a record set one day earlier.
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U.S. stocks rose on Tuesday, pushing   the Dow Jones index to within 100 points of its record high, as   an unexpectedly big jump in consumer confidence eased investor   concerns about the effect of slowing economic growth on   corporate profits.
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NEW YORK, May 30 -- The Standard & Poor's 500-stock index hit a record high Wednesday, marking a four-year recovery of U.S. stocks battered by the burst of the tech bubble, the collapse of Enron and WorldCom, the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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Asian stocks rose to a fresh life  high on Monday as investors bet there will be a U.S. interest  rate cut this week, which sent the dollar to a record low  against the euro and a basket of major currencies.
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Dow closes at record high for second consecutive day as investor get ready for earnings season.
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Welcome news about the economy and interest rates touched off a stock market rally that lifted the Dow Jones industrial average to a record.
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THE share market reached a record high today, despite a negative lead from the US where markets fell overnight. At 1030 AEST, the benchmark S&amp;P/ASX 200 index was trading at 3595.