Stocks in Europe surged higher at the open by more than 5percentt.
But the music surged higher and higher, up to flat-out Rolling Stones rock 'n' roll, euphoria in three chords.
Technology stocks surged higher this week as investors rallied around evidence suggesting that the economy might be stabilizing.
Prices of Argentine government debt nevertheless fell, and the cost of protecting the debt against default surged higher.
Even though markets surged higher, the new employment data increased worries about the government's release of monthly unemployment statistics on Friday.
Consumer-geared companies surged higher on hopes that consumers would shake their funk and spend money at shopping malls, rather than sock it away.
Stock markets surged higher in the last hour of trading on Wednesday, buoyed by a more positive picture from home builders, some better economic news and hopes that defaults on credit cards would not soar as high as feared.
Treasury Prices Rise (By Reuters) Treasuries surged higher yesterday after investors eagerly snapped up a record $27 billion in two-year notes, piling on at a rate not seen in more than a year.
Stocks surged higher on Wednesday as some results of the stress tests began to leak out, showing that even banks that might need billions of dollars of additional capital were not on the brink of insolvency.
The price of long-term Treasuries surged higher, and the yield on the benchmark 10-year note posted its biggest one-day drop in years, falling to 2.53percentt, from 3.01percentt late Tuesday.
Stocks surged higher for a second day on Thursday as oil prices continued to plunge and Wall Street embraced an encouraging earnings report from a banking stalwart, JPMorgan Chase.
