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The Stoxx Europe 600 was up 2.5% midway through the European session, led by gains in energy stocks that were buoyed by steadying oil prices. DuPont’s shares soared on news that its embattled CEO would step down, while biotechnology companies sank again. Investors are...

All three major US indexes have gained since Friday when a weak U.S.jobs report led to expectations that the Federal Reserve would not raise interest rates this year, meaning the era of near-zero interest rates would continue. Stocks had trimmed a few of their gains earlier in...

Data released Friday showed U.S. non-farm payrolls rose by 142,000 in September, considerably lower than the 203,000 jobs the markets had expected.

The debt ceiling. On Thursday, Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew warned that the US would exhaust its ability to borrow on November 5 unless Congress increases the debt ceiling. Emerging economies such as Brazil and Turkey are struggling to grow at all.

In a speech late Thursday, Fed Chair Janet Yellen, who spoke a week after the Fed delayed a long-anticipated rate hike, said she and other Fed policymakers do not expect recent global economic and financial market developments to significantly affect the central bank’s policy.

The jobless rate held steady at 5.1 percent but average hourly wages fell by a cent from August.

The best performing sector in 3Q was utilities, which was the only one of 10 S&P 500 sectors to close the quarter in positive territory.

The health care sector bounced back from a plunge a day earlier.

Another S&P 500 goal just little the airborne dirt and dust.

Biotech stocks had their worst week since 2008 last week, as stocks like Gilead Sciences (GILD), Amgen (AMGN), Biogen (BIIB) and Regeneron (REGN) got hammered following Hillary Clinton’s drug-pricing tweet.

Investors sold even some of the year’s most resilient stocks.

Futures on the Nasdaq exchange were down 0.5 percent.

A sell-off in drug manufacturers extended into a second week.

The USA economy expanded more than previously estimated in the second quarter on stronger consumer spending and construction, the second upward revision in a row.

The government has forecast growth of around 7 percent but a run of weak data has reinforced market expectations the final outcome will be below 7 percent. The Shanghai Composite Index now rests just above the 3,155-point plateau, and the market may extend its gains on Tuesday.