Global Markets Overview - 07/02/2012

By International Business Times,  July 01, 2012, 07:45:57 PM EDT

U.S. STOCK MARKETS

The Standard & Poor's 500-stock index posted its biggest daily gain of the year, an exclamation mark on stocks' best June in more than a decade, as investors cheered European leaders' progress on the region's debt problems.

The index jumped 33.12 points, or 2.5%, to 1362.16, the biggest one-day percentage increase since December. Industrials and technology shares paced gains as all 10 of the benchmark's sectors rose.

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