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Global stocks gain as economic toll of virus worsens

by AP Business Writer
| April 2, 2020 2:27 AM

BEIJING (AP) — Major global stock markets and U.S. futures rose Thursday following a rocky start to the day after a White House warning that as many as 240,000 Americans might die of the coronavirus sent Wall Street tumbling.

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