Automakers lifted the German DAX to a record high on Thursday, while eurozone blue-chip stocks jumped to pre-pandemic levels after the U.S. Federal Reserve vowed to keep interest rates low despite forecasting a surge in economic growth. An index of the euro zone’s top 50 companies gained 0.3% in early trading, briefly surpassing its peak hit in February last year before the COVID-19 pandemic hammered financial markets. Germany’s blue-chip DAX rose 0.7%, France’s CAC 40 was up 0.2%, while UK’s FTSE 100 slipped 0.1% ahead of the Bank of England’s monetary policy decision due later in the day. The wider pan-European STOXX 600 rose 0.3% and was trading less than 2% below its all-time high. With the 10-year U.S. Treasury yield rising in after the […]