• European markets opened higher on Tuesday morning, after U.S. lawmakers secured a deal that allowed government operations to get back into action.
The pan-European STOXX 600 rose 0.3 percent at the beginning of trade, while sectors were mostly trading in the black.
• Asian stocks advanced on Tuesday after U.S. senators struck a deal to end a three-day government shutdown, sending Wall Street’s main indexes to record highs, while the dollar inched down against the yen after the Bank of Japan kept policy steady.
MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan .MIAPJ0000PUS rose 0.75 percent to a record peak.
• Japan’s Nikkei share average on Tuesday ended at its highest in more than 26 years, with real estate and precision machinery stocks leading the gains.
The Nikkei finished up 1.3 percent at 24,124.15. Earlier in the session, it touched 24,129.34, its highest intraday level since November 1991.
• China stocks extended a rally on Tuesday to fresh two-year peaks, underpinned by continued gains in banking and real estate firms.
At the close, the Shanghai Composite index was up 45.62 points or 1.3 percent at 3,546.98.
The blue-chip CSI300 index was up 1.08 percent, with its financial sector sub-index higher by 2.01 percent, the consumer staples sector up 0.34percent, the real estate index up 3.21 percent and healthcare sub-index up 0.04 percent.
Reference: Reuters, CNBC