The US markets surged on Monday, delivering their best one-day performance in over six weeks, as France and Germany pledged to do everything necessary to support Europe’s banks. The French and German comments gave investors hope that European officials may take bigger steps deemed necessary to control the region’s sovereign-debt crisis. German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy stated that they will deliver a plan to recapitalize European banks and address the Greek debt crisis by November 3. Also, Belgium stated that it will buy part of Dexia SA and provide security for depositors as part of a plan to rescue the lender.
Now the markets will take direction with domestic events as the Federal Reserve will release the minutes of its latest interest-rate setting meeting tomorrow and investors will also be looking ahead to a slew of big-name earnings reports later in the week. Meanwhile investors are expecting that reports of US retail sales will increase in September at the fastest pace in six months, helping to ease concern the recovery is faltering.
The Dow Jones industrial average gained 330.06 points, or 2.97 percent, to 11,433.20. The Standard and Poor’s 500 closed higher by 39.43 points, or 3.41 percent, to 1,194.89, while the Nasdaq composite gained 86.70 points, or 3.50 percent, to 2,566.05.
The Indian ADRs closed in green on Monday, Infosys Technologies was up by 1.55%, Tata Motors was up by 1.47%, ICICI Bank was up by 1.43%, HDFC Bank was up by 1.12% and Dr. Reddy’s lab was up by 1.01%.
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