Global Stock Markets Rise After Wall Street Rebounds

A currency trader watches monitors at the foreign exchange dealing room of the KEB Hana Bank headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, on Dec. 22, 2021. Ahn Young-joon/AP Photo

BEIJING—Global stock markets rose Wednesday with markets optimistic that the Omicron coronavirus variant would only have a limited economic fallout.

Shanghai, Frankfurt, Tokyo, and Hong Kong advanced. London opened lower.