U.S. stocks were poised to jump about 4 percent at the open on Monday after a $1 trillion global emergency rescue package was launched, quelling contagion fears and sending European stocks surging.The package of standby funds and loan guarantees was aimed at preventing Greece's debt crisis from spreading and would be available to euro zone governments shut out of credit markets.The total bailout, reached by global leaders on Monday, is on the scale of the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program created by the U.S. government in 2008 to stave off the credit crisis.The agreement appeared to restore investor confidence after fears over Greece's debt struggles had weighed on global markets."The long awaited rescue package is making it comfortable for investors to move back into recently shunned equities," said Andre Bakhos, director of market analytics at Lek Securities in New York.In Europe, the pan-European FTSEurofirst 300 index of top shares advanced 6.6 percent, rebounding from its biggest weekly drop in nearly 18 months. European banks jumped while the Select Sector SPDR Financial fund gained 4.4 percent.S&P 500 futures rose 48.2 points and were well above fair value, a formula that evaluates pricing by taking into account interest rates, dividends and time to expiration on the contract. Dow Jones industrial average futures shot up 370 points, and Nasdaq 100 futures jumped 78.75 points.The heads of leading U.S. stock market operators were called to Washington for an emergency meeting on Monday to address whether they needed to add levers to their trading systems to halt sudden plunges in individual stocks, according to a source.The meeting comes on the heels of last week's dramatic intraday plunge in U.S. markets that has continued to perplex investors and regulators.Shares of McDonald's Corp gained 2.5 percent to $69.74 before the opening bell after it reported a higher-than-expected 4.9 percent rise in April same-store sales.Boeing Co is on track to deliver its first 787 Dreamliner, which will compete with Airbus's A380 jet, a Boeing official said Saturday. Boeing was up 4.6 percent at $69.80.Google Inc and DuPont both rose after UBS added the stocks to its U.S. key calls list. Google jumped 3.3 percent to $509.51, while DuPont was up 5.4 percent at $38.20.Stocks turned negative for the year on Friday on fears of another credit crisis stemming from Greece's souring finances and lingering questions about what triggered last week's sudden plunge.The rescue package pledged 500 billion euros ($670 billion) in loans and loan guarantees to euro-zone countries, plus about 250 billion euros from the International Monetary Fund. The package is on the same scale as the $700 billion bailout launched by the United States to stave off the credit crisis.At the same time the U.S. Federal Reserve reopened currency swap lines with several central banks in hopes of assuring markets of dollar liquidity, and the European Central Bank said it would buy government debt to steady investor nerves. A number of European central banks said they had already started. (Editing by Jeffrey Benkoe)News posted by www.newsinfoline.com
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