Donald Trump said he wanted to get Americans back to work as the US Congress agreed to a stimulus bill worth almost $2 trillion.
The FTSE 100 rose by more than 9 per cent on Tuesday, its second best day on record behind a bounce in November 2008, while the Dow Jones in America was initially up 8 per cent.
The US president said he wanted to get the economy opened up and “raring to go” by Easter, less than three weeks away, despite the number of coronavirus cases still surging.
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