Asian, US Shares Up, COVID-19 Concerns Start to Ease By Investing.com – Investing.com

Asian, US Shares Up, COVID-19 Concerns Start to Ease By Investing.com – Investing.com

By Gina Lee

Investing.com – Asia Pacific stocks were mostly up on Wednesday morning, with U.S. counterparts recording their biggest advance since March 2021. Brightening investor sentiment, as concerns about rising numbers of global COVID-19 cases involving the Delta variant were somewhat eased, gave global shares a boost.

Japan’s was up 0.51% by 10:42 PM ET (2:42 AM GMT). released earlier in the day was better than expected, with growing 48.6% year-on-year, a fourth consecutive month of double-digit gains and growing 32.7% year-on-year in June.