- Carpenter bomb stuns Guardians as Tigers level series
- Harris, Trump and Biden mark Oct. 7 attacks as US election looms
- Oil prices extend gains on Mideast tensions, Wall Street falls
- US judge orders Google to open Android to rival app stores
- On attacks anniversary, Israel fights 'sacred' multi-front war
- Nobel scientist uncovered tiny genetic switches with big potential
- Grammy-winning Cissy Houston, mother of Whitney, dies at 91
- UN biodiversity summit in Colombia aims to turn words into action
- Georgia Supreme Court reinstates six-week abortion ban
- 'Dark day': Victims mourned around the globe on Oct. 7 anniversary
- On attacks anniversary, Israel fights multi-front war
- Mexican mayor murdered days after taking office
- Intensifying to Category 5, Hurricane Milton targets Florida
- Mission to probe smashed asteroid launches despite hurricane
- Biden, Harris mark Oct. 7 with call for Mideast peace
- Dupont set for Toulouse return after post-Olympic holiday
- French rugby bosses tighten discipline after nightmare Argentina tour
- Oil prices extend gains on Mideast tensions, Wall Street slips
- Visitors to get rare view of Rome's Trevi Fountain
- Europe's asteroid mission Hera launches despite hurricane
- Man City and Premier League both claim victory in legal case
- Deschamps delight as 'light back on' for Pogba after doping ban
- Biden, Harris urge Mideast peace on Oct. 7 anniversary
- Neeskens, tough midfielder in Cruyff's Ajax and Dutch teams
- UN warns world's water cycle becoming ever more erratic
- Oil prices extend gains on Mideast tensions, Wall Street retreats
- Ex-Dutch football star Johan Neeskens dies
- Man Utd battling to improve fortunes, says Evans
- What is microRNA? Nobel-winning discovery explained
- Masood, Abdullah centuries lift Pakistan to 328-4 in first England Test
- Hurricane Milton strengthens fast, threatens Mexico, Florida
- Tunisia's President Saied set for landslide election win
- Barca hoping to return to Camp Nou 'by end of year'
- Trump to open second golf course at Scotland resort in summer 2025
- Super-sub Jhon Duran rewarded with new Aston Villa deal
- US duo win Nobel for gene regulation breakthrough
- Masood hits first ton for four years to power Pakistan to 233-1
- Fritz wins delayed match to reach Shanghai Masters third round
- Naomi Osaka pulls out of Japan Open with back injury
- Weather may delay launch of mission to study deflected asteroid
- China to flesh out economic stimulus plans after bumper rally
- Artist Marina Abramovic hopes first China show offers tech respite
- Asian markets track Wall St rally on US jobs data
- Pakistan 122-1 at lunch in first England Test
- Kazakhs approve plan for first nuclear power plant
- World marks anniversary of Oct. 7 attack on Israel
- 'Second family': tennis stars hunt winning formula with new coaches
- Philippines, South Korea agree to deepen maritime cooperation
- Mexico mayor murdered days after taking office
- Sardinia's sheep farmers battle bluetongue as climate warms
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Stocks up, oil steady on easing supply, inflation concerns
Stock markets climbed and oil prices steadied Monday on easing concerns over tight crude supplies and decades-high inflation, traders said.
Turkey's lira was stable against the dollar and euro after official data showed the country's inflation had soared to a fresh record high.
Elsewhere, trading was halted on Sri Lanka's stock exchange seconds after opening Monday as the island nation's president offered to share power with the opposition.
Protests demanding the resignation of Gotabaya Rajapaksa grew over unprecedented food and fuel shortages along with record inflation and crippling power cuts in the South Asian country.
Sri Lanka's stock market slid more than the five percent in value -- the threshold needed to trigger an automatic stop.
On the corporate front, Twitter's stock soared by more than 25 percent in pre-market trade after Tesla boss Elon Musk took a major stake in the social media giant.
According to a document filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, Musk acquired nearly 73.5 million Twitter shares -- a 9.2-percent stake in the company.
Ahead of Wall Street's reopening, other major stock markets "continued their cautious grind higher, as investors took solace from a US economy which is showing increasing signs of being able to withstand the likely onslaught of interest rate rises to come", noted Richard Hunter, head of markets at Interactive Investor.
The world's top economy added 431,000 jobs in March while the US unemployment rate fell to just slightly above pre-pandemic levels, official data showed Friday.
Economists viewed the figures as reinforcing the Federal Reserve's commitment to forcefully raising interest rates, perhaps by half a percentage point at its meeting next month, which would be double the increase it announced when it began hiking in March.
Stock markets Monday were helped by steadier oil prices after recent surges triggered by tight supply concerns, notably owing to the invasion of Ukraine by major crude producer Russia.
The 31-nation International Energy Agency on Friday agreed to tap its vast reserves to offset the removal of Russian exports.
There was some cheer also from news of a 60-day ceasefire in Yemen's six-year civil war that has seen several attacks on Saudi facilities, in turn hitting output from the world's biggest oil producer.
- Key figures around 1100 GMT -
London - FTSE 100: UP 0.2 percent at 7,555.73 points
Frankfurt - DAX: FLAT at 14,450.49
Paris - CAC 40: UP 0.2 percent at 6,700.38
EURO STOXX 50: UP 0.1 percent at 3,924.35
Tokyo - Nikkei 225: UP 0.3 percent at 27,736.47 (close)
Hong Kong - Hang Seng Index: UP 2.1 percent at 22,502.31 (close)
Shanghai - Composite: Closed for a holiday
New York - Dow: UP 0.4 percent at 34,818.27 (close)
Brent North Sea crude: FLAT at $104.37 per barrel
West Texas Intermediate: FLAT at $99.31 per barrel
Euro/dollar: DOWN at $1.1002 from $1.1049 late Friday
Pound/dollar: DOWN at $1.3098 from $1.3118
Euro/pound: DOWN at 84.00 pence from 84.24 pence
Dollar/yen: UP at 122.76 yen from 122.49 yen
A.Mahlangu--AMWN