European stocks enjoyed an unusually strong open on Tuesday after a weak Wall Street finish, after a report the European Union will consider jointly issuing bonds to finance energy and defense spending.
The Stoxx Europe 600 SXXP, -0.51% rose as much as 1.7% in early trade, paring those gains to about 0.4%.
The French CAC 40 PX1, -0.32% gained 1.4%, the German DAX DAX, -0.02% rose 0.7% and the U.K. FTSE 100 UKX, +0.07% slipped 0.1%.
Bloomberg News reported the EU will unveil a plan this week for the joint spending after leaders hold an emergency summit in Versailles. The report said officials are still working out how much money they intend to raise. The joint fund raising would be the second pan-EU spending plan after the NextGenerationEU package to repair the damage from the COVID-19 pandemic.
The yield on the 10-year German bund TMBMKDE-10Y, 0.122% shot up 10 basis points to 0.08%.
U.S. stock futures responded positively to the European open, with futures on the S&P 500 ES00, 0.94% rising 0.4% after a 3% nosedive for the index SPX, -0.72% on Monday in the wake of U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken saying allies were considering a ban on Russian oil imports.
Of stocks on the move, flexible office-space provider IWG IWG, +9.72% jumped 12% on a plan to merge its digital assets with the Instant Group in a £270 million deal, with the intention to then list the assets in either the U.S. or the U.K. IWG also reported full year figures slightly ahead of expectations.