2026-02-07
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This is the world in brief from The Economist.
America's stock market rebounded on Friday after a run of selloffs.
The Dow Jones industrial average hit a new high, surpassing 50,000.
The S&P 500 and the tech-heavy Nasdaq indexes both climbed by around 2%.
Investors were spooked this week by Big Tech's vast artificial intelligence spending plans and a model released by Anthropic,
an AI firm that could challenge some software companies.
At least 31 people were killed in a suicide bomb attack on a Shia mosque in Islamabad,
Pakistan's capital.
Officials said nearly 170 people were injured.
The minority Shia Muslim sect in Pakistan has been the target of violence in the past.
Militant violence has risen recently.
A suicide bombing in Islamabad in November,
the first attack on civilians there in a decade, killed 12 people.
Donald Trump deleted a video from his social media account that depicted former President Barack Obama.