Stocks Surge, Put Shaky Few Weeks Further Behind Them<br />NEW YORK — Stocks around the world jumped on Tuesday,<br />and the Standard & Poor’s 500 had one of its best days of the year, as markets put a shaky last couple of weeks further behind them.<br />It’s taken just two days for the index to recoup half the loss it sustained in the two weeks since setting a record on Aug. 7.<br />Jon Adams said that We’ve seen these blips of volatility this year, and we have tended to calm down very quickly afterward,<br />It had just two days this year where it fell by 1 percent or more, before doubling its tally during the last two weeks.<br />The heads of both the Fed and the European Central Bank are expected to speak at the symposium,<br />and if either suggests a more aggressive pace than investors are expecting, it would likely mean another tumble for markets.
