Wall Street Looks to Break Six-Day Slump as Europe Stops the Rot

Wall Street Looks to Break Six-Day Slump as Europe Stops the Rot
A man checks stock price movements at a securities company in Beijing on July 4, 2018. Greg Baker/AFP/Getty Images
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LONDON—European and U.S. markets attempted a rebound on Oct. 25 after Wall Street’s worst day since 2011 and heavy losses in Asia gave global stocks another boot towards their worst month since the financial crisis.

It was far from plain sailing. Germany’s DAX had hit a near two-year low and London’s FTSE and Paris’s CAC 40 both brushed 1 1/2-year lows early on after Japan had plummeted overnight, but a semblance of stability was emerging.