NEW YORK: Global stocks soared and US markets powered to fresh records on Friday (Saturday in Manila) after the Bank of Japan surprised investors with a sharp increase to its stimulus operations.
The policy switch, aimed at countering a slowdown in the Japanese economy, delivered a much-needed boost to equities from Asia to the Americas after a slow week marked by the US Federal Reserve’s announcement of the end of its own huge quantitative easing program.
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