May 12 (Bloomberg) -- Bloomberg's Deborah Kostroun reports on the performance of the U.S. equity market today. Stocks advanced, wiping out losses from the May 6 plunge in the Standard & Poors 500 Index, after pledges from the U.K. and Spain to shrink their budget deficits allayed concern the European debt crisis will curtail global growth. Bloomberg's Pimm Fox also speaks. (Source: Bloomberg)
