Global stocks rose and the dollar fell on Monday after the Group of 20 pledged to keep stimulus in place until recovery was assured, following data on Friday showing the US unemployment rate rose to a 26-year high.
The MSCI world equity index rose 0.8 per cent in early London trade while European shares were up 1.2 per cent.
That came after Tokyo's Nikkei share average closed up 0.2 per cent and other Asian shares also gained.
"The markets have not been given any excuse to do a lot of correcting," said Bernard McAlinden, strategist at NCB Stockbrokers. "At the G20 meeting, the members agreed to keep the stimulus in place."
The dollar fell broadly as higher-yielding and commodity-linked currencies benefitted from renewed risk-taking sentiment.
"We have positive equity markets so we have risk appetite. And that is still a dollar negative. People are buying into higher-yielding currencies or currencies where rates are going higher," said Niels Christiensen at Nordea in Copenhagen.
"It's difficult to pinpoint any reason to hold or buy the dollar. So the dollar is still the preferred funding currency."
The euro was up 0.8 per cent against the dollar at $1.4966. The Australian dollar was up 0.9 per cent against the US dollar and the New Zealand dollar was up 1.5 per cent.
Bond markets were pressured not only by higher stocks but also ahead of a slew of supply this week, notably the $81 billion from the United States which starts with a sale of $40 billion in three-year notes later in the day.
Yields on 10-year Treasury notes edged up to 3.529 per cent in Asian trade, up 2 basis points from late US trade on Friday. They were last at 3.520 per cent.
Japanese benchmark 10-year government bond yields surged to a 4-1/2 month high ahead of JGB auctions.
The G20 finance ministers and central bank governors, meeting over the weekend in Scotland, refrained from directly addressing currencies in talks to rebalance the global economy.
The International Monetary Fund said in a report while the dollar had depreciated in recent months, it still remained on the "strong" side, putting pressure on the US unit.
Data on Friday showed US employers cut a larger-than-expected 190,000 jobs in October and the unemployment rate rose to 10.2 per cent.
The dollar's fall prompted gold prices to hit a record high. It rose above $1,100 an ounce in Europe on Monday, extending last week's near 5.0 per cent gains.
Oil rose more than $1 to above $78 a barrel on Monday, recouping some of the previous session's near 3 per cent loss, on fears a powerful hurricane would cut US oil and gas supplies and also lifted by the falling dollar.
