US stocks recovered from an early slide Thursday and in the process broke a five-day losing streak. Gains in technology companies, banks and industrial stocks outweighed losses among big retailers, homebuilders and utilities. Energy stocks rose along with crude oil. European indexes finished mostly lower as the British pound slumped amid discord over a new deal for Britain's departure from the European Union next spring. The Dow Jones industrials were up 0.8 percent, the S&P added 1.1 percent and the Nasdaq soared 1.7 percent.

金融市場不時出現事件引發的波動，例如經濟欠明朗、貨幣或財政政策變動、金融市場連鎖效應或地緣政局緊張，期間投資者信心可能嚴重受挫。