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GLOBAL MARKETS-Equities surge, bonds tumble on surprise U.S. jobs gains

Published 05/06/2020, 11:58 pm
Updated 06/06/2020, 12:00 am
© Reuters.

© Reuters.

By David Randall

NEW YORK, June 5 (Reuters) - An unexpected jump in U.S. employment sent world equities surging on hopes that the global economy has started to recover from the coronavirus pandemic, pulling investors out of perceived safe havens like government bonds and gold.

U.S. nonfarm payrolls rose by 2.509 million jobs last month after a record plunge of 20.687 million in April. Economists polled by Reuters had forecast the unemployment rate jumping to 19.8% in May and payrolls falling by 8 million jobs. numbers are a huge surprise to the upside," said Michael Arone, chief investment strategist at State Street (NYSE:STT) Global Advisors. "It has confirmed what many folks were suggesting: that the effects on the labor market from the pandemic were temporary and that when the economy reopened and the infection rates started to diminish, that these jobs would come back."

MSCI's gauge of stocks across the globe .MIWD00000PUS gained 1.66%. The index is now down 5% for the year to date and trading at its highest level since early March, before the U.S. economy went into lockdown in an effort to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus.

In morning trading on Wall Street, the Dow Jones Industrial Average .DJI rose 737.16 points, or 2.8%, to 27,018.98, the S&P 500 .SPX gained 64.61 points, or 2.08%, to 3,176.96 and the Nasdaq Composite .IXIC added 88.92 points, or 0.92%, to 9,704.73.

Equity gains were widespread before the surprise jobs report. MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside of Japan .MIAPJ0000PUS rose 0.9%, reversing early losses to stay near a 12-week high.

The index is up about 7.6% this week, on track for its best weekly showing since December 2011.

Emerging market stocks .MSCIEF were up 0.7% and also on course for their best week since December 2011.

Hopes for an swift economic recovery sank U.S. government bonds, which had reached historic highs on fears that the pandemic would erode consumer demand. Benchmark 10-year notes US10YT=RR last fell 25/32 in price to yield 0.9035%, from 0.82% late on Thursday.

Bond investors will get further insight into the likely direction of the economy when the U.S. Federal Reserve holds its regular two-day policy meeting next week.

Europe has now clawed back two-thirds of the losses incurred following the coronavirus outbreak and Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) analysts said on Friday they expect European stocks to rise another 10% by the end of September on expectations of a pick-up in business activity. for a third straight week of gains, the euro rose to $1.1380 EUR= , its highest level since March 10 and was on course for a weekly jump of 2.5%. dollar index =USD made a tepid recovery, rising 0.08% to 96.84, but remained on track for its third consecutive week of losses and close to its lowest in nearly three months.

Hopes for an economic recovery sent oil prices surging U.S. crude CLc1 recently rose 3.74% to $38.81 per barrel and Brent LCOc1 was at $41.89, up 4.75% on the day.

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