Reuters
World stock markets edged higher on Thursday, heading for their best monthly jump since the first COVID-19 vaccine breakthroughs of 2020, as the continuing downtrend for global bond yields lifted confidence. The regional gains and similarly higher Wall Street futures helped lift the MSCI's main world stocks index , which tracks 47 countries, a fractional 0.01%, consolidating its near 9% leap this month. The data "confirm what we have been saying for a little while, Europe is already in recession but it is a mild recession," Rabobank's Head of Macro Strategy Elwin de Groot said.