Global Stocks Gain as Appetite for Risk Stages Comeback

Global Stocks Gain as Appetite for Risk Stages Comeback
Currency traders work at the foreign exchange dealing room of the KEB Hana Bank headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, on Dec. 21, 2021. Ahn Young-joon/AP Photo
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LONDON/HONG KONG—World shares gained on Tuesday as investors weighed up the extent to which the Omicron coronavirus variant would hit economies around the world, with the dollar softening as appetite for riskier assets made a cautious return.

The broader Euro STOXX 600 rose as much as 1.1 percent. German DAX’s added 0.8 percent, with London’s FTSE climbing 0.9 percent.