欧洲领导人就增加该地区债务危机援救资金达成协议的消息激励了投资者，星期四，全球股市大幅上扬。
在美国，纽约股市开盘后涨势强劲。道琼斯工业平均指数上涨2%，标准普尔500指数和纳斯达克指数上涨幅度都接近2.5%。
欧洲股市星期四下午的交易也大幅上涨。伦敦富时100指数上扬3.4%。法国巴黎CAC-40指数大涨将近6%以上。德国法兰克福股市DAX指数的涨幅为5.4%。
早些时候在亚洲，东京日经指数的涨幅为2%，收于8927点。香港恒生指数大涨3.3%，以19689点结束当日交易。
黄金价格为1719.04美元一盎司，下跌将近6美元。美元对日圆和欧元走软。
News that European leaders made a deal to expand a bailout fund in the region's debt crisis encouraged investors, and stocks soared around the world Thursday.
U.S. stocks made strong gains in early New York trading. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 2 percent, while the S&P 500 and the NASDAQ moved up 2.5 percent.
European stocks soared in Thursday's afternoon trading. London's Financial Times index jumped 3.4 percent, the CAC-40 in Paris soared more than 6 percent while the DAX index in Frankfurt advanced 5.4 percent.
Earlier in Asia, Tokyo's Nikkei index gained two percent to finish at 8,927. Hong Kong's Hang Seng index soared 3.3 percent to finish the day's trading at 19,689.
The price of gold fell nearly $6 to trade at $1,719.04 an ounce.
The dollar fell against the yen and the euro.