Global rally
Traders enactment connected the level of the New York Stock Exchange connected Aug. 12, 2025.
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It isn't conscionable stocks successful Europe that are connected the rise.
Overnight successful Asia, shares person been rallying, with Japan's Nikkei 225 hitting an all-time precocious and Hong Kong's Hang Seng Tech Index — location to immoderate of China's biggest tech firms — adding much than 2%.
That followed a league connected Wall Street that saw some the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite hit grounds highs, arsenic U.S. ostentation information raised markets' expectations of a complaint chopped from the Federal Reserve.
— Chloe Taylor
Opening calls
The U.K.'s Met Office forecasts different nationalist wellness informing for temperatures reaching 34 degrees Celsius successful London, arsenic members of the nationalist transverse Westminster Briidge, connected Aug. 12 2025.
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Good greeting from London, wherever much sweltering upwind is connected its way.
Stocks are besides looking acceptable to vigor up somewhat, with futures tied to the FTSE 100 past seen trading 0.2% higher. Those tied to the German DAX are 0.5% higher, portion futures tied to the French CAC 40 are up by 0.4%.
— Chloe Taylor