World stocks notch up longest winning streak of year ahead of Fed meeting

LONDON (Reuters) - World stocks basked in an eighth straight session of gains in their longest winning streak of the year on Thursday, as reassuring trade data from China kept the previous day's post-U.S. midterms risk rally rolling.Traders were gearing up for the latest U.S. Federal Reserve meeting in a confident mood and the contrast to a month ago, when markets were taking a painful pounding, could not have been more stark. European shares jumped to a one-month high after results from SocGen..