15-08-2016 15:04 via news.yahoo.com

China shares hit 7-mth high; world yields keep falling

By Marc Jones LONDON (Reuters) - World shares set up camp at one-year peaks on Monday as a rally in Chinese stocks helped offset news that Japan's economic growth had ground to a halt in the last quarter, while oil prices extended their latest rally. Wall Street looked set to add fractionally to last week's string of all-time highs [.N] while London, Frankfurt and Paris were up 0.2-0.4 percent as healthcare and energy stocks kept them buoyant in Europe. "Luckily we went quite long of risk after
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