Asia Stocks Surge, Europe Opens Lower After Oil Prices Rise

A man wearing a protective mask rides a bicycle in front of an electronic stock board showing Japan's Nikkei 225 and New York Dow indexes at a securities firm in Tokyo, on March 10, 2022. Eugene Hoshiko/AP Photo

BEIJING—Asian markets surged while Europe opened lower Thursday after oil prices recovered some of a decline the day before that had eased inflation fears.

Futures for Wall Street’s benchmark S&P 500 index and the Dow Jones Industrial Average were down 0.4 percent as Russian attacks on Ukraine intensified two weeks as fighting entered its third week.