Futures tied to the S&P 500 rose 0.8%, a day after the broad stocks gauge posted its biggest one-day advance since November. Contracts for the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 0.7% and futures for the technology-heavy Nasdaq-100 climbed 0.8%.
Stock markets have steadied globally this week after a choppy January, when extreme moves in some individual stocks, signs of a slowdown in the U.S. economy, and concerns about the pace of the vaccine rollout and new coronavirus variants weighed on share prices. Investor sentiment has been lifted by robust earnings reports from large-cap companies, as well as a decline in
