Shares in Europe ended higher on Wednesday.
Stocks ended higher on Friday, led by gains in bank shares, as the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index bounced back from its second-worst decline of the year.
Stocks reversed an early slide and ended higher on Wednesday after the Federal Reserve issued a more upbeat assessment of the economy.
Stocks ended higher on Monday and Tuesday, but on Wednesday, there was a global sell-off in equities as Italy's 10-year bond yields surpassed 7 percent, a critical threshold for when borrowing costs start to become unsustainable.
Stocks gyrated Tuesday before ending higher on a day of significant political developments in Italy, the latest country to come under fire in the drawn-out euro zone debt crisis.
Visx ended higher on the news at $24.36, up $6.26, or 34.59%; Advanced Medical shares moved inversely on Wednesday, closing at $38.80, down $3.64, or 8.58%.
So far, the technology-laced gauge has ended higher on 15 out of 20 sessions, racking up a year-to-date gain of some 13%.
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