Marketmind: Global stocks at two-year highs, Nikkei skirts record

A confusing mix of red hot stock markets, chilly U.S. economic updates and hawkish Federal Reserve noises make for a foggy end to the week as U.S. producer inflation numbers hove into view. Major stock indexes at least seem in little doubt about the direction of travel. Global stocks hit 2-year highs as the Nikkei soared again to within a hair's breadth of the record set at the height of Japan's property bubble in 1990 and Hong Kong's beaten down Hang Seng rallied more than 2% ahead of China's post-New Year reopening next week.

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