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Asian shares buoyed by US gains Strong gains for European shares
(40 minutes later)
Asian shares moved ahead as investors took heart from Wall Street gains, but worries about the slowing global economy remained prominent. European shares opened higher on Friday at the end of an extraordinary week of trading, taking heart from the gains on Wall Street on Thursday.
Japan's benchmark Nikkei index closed 2.8% higher, a day after its worst fall since 1987. In early trading the FTSE 100 rose 4.3%, the Dax in Frankfurt was up 4% and the Cac 40 in Paris was up 4.6%.
The volatility saw Hong Kong's Hang Seng index largely unchanged. It followed gains of 4.7% in New York and 2.8% on Tokyo's Nikkei 225 index.
US shares had ended higher after sharp falls and gains in a day of tense trading, with the Dow Jones index closing up 4.6%. The mood was helped by news from IBM, which said it expects to meet long-term profit forecasts and Google, which reported better-than-expected results.
Oil prices rose above $72 a barrel from a 14-month low as investors bet that fears of demand for energy being hit by the global downturn were over stated. But concerns remain about the state of the global economy
Key indexes in South Korea and Australia fell back slightly, though markets were relatively stable in comparison to recent gyrations. Oil prices rose above $72 a barrel from a 14-month low as investors bet that fears that demand for energy would be hit by the global downturn were overstated.
Key indexes in South Korea and Australia fell back slightly, though markets were relatively stable in comparison with recent gyrations.
The Nikkei index climbed 235.37 points to end at 8,693.8, having lost more than 11% on Thursday.The Nikkei index climbed 235.37 points to end at 8,693.8, having lost more than 11% on Thursday.