LONDON (AP) -- World stock markets mostly rose Friday, with Japan's main index hitting a ten-month high, amid mounting investor optimism that the global economy is emerging from recession sooner than expected.
In Europe, the FTSE 100 index of leading British shares was up 10.60 points, or 0.2 percent, at 4,766.06 while Germany's DAX rose 11.83 points, or 0.2 percent, to 5,412.94. The CAC-40 in France was 20.95 points, or 0.6 percent, higher at 3,545.34.
Earlier in Asia, stocks advanced after U.S. investors brushed off weaker than expected retail sales data and sent the Dow Jones industrial average up to a nine-month closing high.
Hopes of a swift rebound in global economic growth had emerged earlier with the news that France and Germany, Europe's two biggest economies, surprisingly grew in the second quarter of the year as well as a fairly upbeat assessment of the state of the U.S. economy from the Federal Reserve.
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