Stocks bask in Dow's afterglow, dollar perks up

World stock markets climbed strongly on Thursday, with investors basking in the afterglow of a break past 20,000 points for Wall Street's record high Dow Jones index. MSCI's 46-country All World index was within touching distance of its lifetime high as European stocks [.EU] rose to their highest since Dec. 2015, completing a global loop after Asia's main bourses also saw a bumper session. The Dow's record run looked set to continue later [.N] and the curious outlier of recent weeks, the dollar