Financial Markets Pause Amid Some Bargain-Hunting

Most stock markets rose overnight, breaking the recent streak of early-2024 declines. The Hong Kong’s Hang Seng advanced 0.8%, and Indonesian share prices closed 0.7% higher. The markets in China and Taiwan each closed 0.4% higher, and those in Germany, France and Italy are presently up by 0.8-1.1%, as is the Nasdaq in pre-open trading. […]