LONDON—Share markets pushed for a fifth straight day of gains on Friday and bonds headed for their best month since 2008, as a record monthly drop in the eurozone’s inflation rate raised investors’ expectations for similar U.S. data later in the day.
With an action-packed first quarter also drawing to a close world stocks were consolidating a 6 percent year-to-date rise. Government bonds have gained as much as 5 percent, gold is 8 percent higher, while oil is down and the dollar has barely budged.
The eurozone inflation numbers showed consumer prices rising 6.9 percent in March after an 8.5 percent increase in February, representing the sharpest deceleration since Eurostat started collecting data in 1991….