Brazil stocks surged 5,124 points to 177,866, leading global markets. Cocoa dropped 7.4% and crude slipped 0.77%. Japan 2-year yields dropped 12bp, the largest move in months.
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Brazil's Bovespa jumped 5,124 points to 177,866, the biggest single-day gain for the index in more than a year. The 2.97% rally came on broad buying across commodities, banks, and energy stocks. No single catalyst was cited by local exchanges or analysts.
The rest of the Americas posted smaller gains. The DJIA rose 149 points to 52,637. The S&P 500 added 31 points to 7,575. The NASDAQ climbed 74 points to 26,281. Canada's TSX Composite advanced 104 points to 35,305.
European markets were mixed. The FTSE 100 added 24 points to 10,497. The CAC 40 rose 12 points to 8,338. The DAX 30 slipped 51 points to 25,067. The euro and pound both eased against the dollar. EURUSD dropped 0.13% to 1.1415. GBPUSD fell 0.09% to 1.3396.
Asian stocks split direction. Japan's Nikkei 225 gained 813 points to 68,557, up 1.20%. India's SENSEX rose 827 points to 77,569. The Hang Seng added 144 points to 24,175. Australia's ASX 200 climbed 43 points to 8,806. Shanghai Composite fell 40 points to 3,996, a 1% drop.
Commodities showed sharp divergence. Cocoa tumbled 7.42%, the largest loss among major futures. Wheat rose 3.08%. Soybeans added 1.23%. Corn gained 1.98%. Palladium rose 1.79%. Lithium slipped 2.21%. Coffee fell 2.87%. Natural gas dropped 2.30%. Crude oil shed 0.77% to $71.52 a barrel. Brent crude fell 0.26% to $76.10.
Precious metals edged lower. Gold lost $24.65 an ounce, or 0.60%, to $4,099.07. Silver fell 0.401 an ounce, or 0.67%, to $59.55.
Bond markets saw a notable move in Japan. The two-year yield dropped 12.2 basis points to 2.762%. That was the largest one-day decline in the short end of Japan's curve in several months. In the U.S., two-year yields rose 2.5 basis points to 4.21%. The 10-year yield added 1.2 basis points to 4.57%. The 30-year yield climbed 0.6 basis points to 5.07%. German Bunds eased 0.77 basis point to 3.045%. French OAT yields fell 2.82 basis points to 3.721%. Italian BTP yields dropped 4.41 basis points to 3.81%. Gilts fell 1.7 basis points to 4.887%.
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