Rising stock markets, a weaker yen and a dollar that’s rallying with industrial metals are showing investor confidence that a sprinkling of stimulus may contain the worst effects of Britain’s vote to leave the European Union, without encouraging the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates. The MSCI All-Country World Index rose for a third day and U.S. equity index futures climbed after a better-than-forecast U.S. jobs report at the end of last week brightened the economic outlook. Japanese shares advanced the most since February and the yen fell for the first time in a week after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s ruling coalition won a fresh mandate to unleash pro-growth policies after Sunday’s election. Nickel advanced with copper and crude oil fell to less than $45 a barrel.
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