Markets advance across the world

THE ISEQ advanced 32.98 points yesterday to 2,604.62 in line with other European and world bourses.

Markets finished the week strongly as investors became more optimistic that the eurozone will continue to make progress on a solution to its debt crisis.

Elsewhere, the International Monetary Fund may need a capital injection of about €250 billion to give it more firepower to fight economic crises, an emerging market G20 source said yesterday.