US equity futures, European bourses and Treasury yields rose for a second day clawing back much of the week’s losses that were sparked by fears over spiking COVID-19 cases, as well as the “peak growth” and “peak inflation” narratives, as bargain hunters helped the S&P 500 to all but erase Monday’s slide in a rally led by cyclicals such as industrial stocks even though the dollar notched further gains on concerns over the impact of a fast-spreading coronavirus variant.

“The correction we had is healthy to clear some of the excess out of the market and to get better balancing between growth and value,” Katie Koch, Goldman Sachs Asset Management’s co-head of fundamental equity, said on Bloomberg Television. “From a long-term perspective we are really still very constructive on equity markets, so we’d encourage clients to be overweight risk assets.”

At 7:00am, emini S&P futures were up 11.50 points or 0.26% to 4,326; Dow Jones futures rose 176 or 0.51% and Nasdaq futures were up 4.5% or 0.03%. Bitcoin recovered from its drop below 30,000 jumping back over $31,000 ahead of a conference that sees Elon Musk, Jack Dorsey and Cathie Wood speak on cryptos.

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