Global stock market selling and an apparent political misstep in the Dáil have raised market jitters over the proposed sale of Government-owned AIB, leading experts have said.

Germany, one of Europe’s cheapest stock markets, is starting to see a resurgence in investor interest.

A rebound in banks helped lift European stocks from their lowest levels since 2013, trimming a second weekly decline.

US treasuries gained with emerging-market assets as futures traders held to bets that the Federal Reserve, chaired by Janet Yellen, will not raise interest rates this week amid financial market volatility.

European lenders pushed stocks to a two-month high yesterday, even as they pared gains in the final hour of trading amid a decline in miners and oil and gas companies.

European stocks rebounded from the biggest drop in a month yesterday amid concern recent losses are overdone, considering the outlook for company earnings.

THE European Central Bank’s unprecedented cash injection is easing borrowing costs for Italy, Spain and Belgium, compensating for the lack of a solution to the debt crisis and the risk of recession.

INTERNATIONAL stockmarkets advanced for a second day’s growth, yesterday, on the back of the European Central Bank’s unexpected interest rate cut and news that a referendum on the latest Greek bailout is now unlikely in its intended form.

GREECE’S ability to avoid default hangs in the balance as international monitors prepare to assess whether prime minister George Papandreou’s government can meet the conditions of rescue loans.

US stocks sank the most since December 2008 yesterday, while Treasuries rallied and gold surged to a record, as Standard & Poor’s reduction of the nation’s credit rating fuelled concern the economic slowdown will worsen.

GLOBAL stocks staged the biggest rally of 2011 yesterday and the Dow Jones Industrial Average reached an almost three-year high amid better- than-estimated results at companies from Intel to United Technologies and L’Oreal.

European share index provider Stoxx has launched Europe's first Christian Stock Index which, it says, comprises companies that act in accordance with the values and principles of the Christian religion.

AIB shares rose to their highest level in six years yesterday after the bank was admitted to a prestigious European share index.