EghtesadOnline: Nickel surged to the highest level in more than two years, and copper chalked up its best mark since 2014, as bets on tighter markets, especially in top consumer China, keep metals buoyant after their longest run of weekly gains in a decade.

EghtesadOnline: Stocks in Europe nudged higher, led by miners, as gains in oil and copper drove Bloomberg’s gauge of commodity prices to a six-month high. The euro weakened and Spanish shares fell after Spain’s government gave Catalonia a new deadline to back down from its independence claim.