Pivot Party Lifts European Stocks, Oil to Best Week of Year

Pivot Party Lifts European Stocks, Oil to Best Week of Year
A passerby walks past an electric monitor displaying recent movements of various stock prices outside a bank in Tokyo, Japan, on March 22, 2023. Issei Kato/Reuters
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LONDON—Europe’s share markets were heading for their best week of the year so far and oil was on track for its strongest performance since October on Friday as traders ratcheted up bets that interest rates in major economies will soon be heading down.

Key U.S. inflation data was coming up later for the dollar bulls but Europe’s equity and bond markets were in no mood for resting despite a groggy overnight session in Asia.