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The data might add a new layer of investor optimism following significantly better-than-expected flash estimate purchasing managers indices for October.

Now Goldman Sachs has become the latest to board the slow bull market bandwagon with a report published Wednesday forecasting a 30% rally in key indices by the end of 2027.

—European indices were down in early trading, except for Switzerland, where shares in consumer-goods giant Nestle rose sharply on the back of strong nine-month results.

U.S stock futures rose along with indices in Europe while in Asia shares mostly declined.

Neither gain brought those indices back to where they had been on April 2, before Trump’s “liberation day” announcement, however.