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Asian markets rose Tuesday as China promised to spur growth and France and Germany agreed to prevent Greece from exiting the euro zone.

Asian stock markets advanced for the second day Tuesday as China's commitment to stimulate growth in the world's second largest economy and signs of cooperation between German and French leaders buoyed sentiment.

A leading economic indicator for China rose at a steady speed in April compared to the previous month indicating that the country?s economy may not have the hard landing as expected earlier.

Japan's Nikkei share average rose in early trading Tuesday, continuing Monday's technical correction as investors picked up bargains after last week's flurry of aggressive selling, triggered by concern over a deepening euro crisis.

The strain in this relationship between Germany and France was apparent Monday as finance ministers from both countries failed to resolve the question whether the euro zone would benefit from issuing joint European bonds. Berlin rejects the idea, stipulating that struggling economies need to clean up their messes before being given a reason not to.

On Monday, Apple invested another $210 million to help Foxconn, the company's largest manufacturing partner in Asia, build out a new production line for unspecified components. The plant will hire roughly 35,800 new employees to help assemble components for the company's line of desktop and laptop computers, smartphones, tablets, or possibly new computing devices.

China can now bypass Wall Street when buying U.S. government debt and go straight to the U.S. Treasury, in what is the Treasury's first-ever direct relationship with a foreign government, according to documents viewed by Reuters.

Former CEO of Yahoo (Nasdaq: YHOO), the No. 3 search engine Scott Thompson resigned as a director of Spunk (Nasdaq: SPLK), a week after quitting his job at Yahoo.

During my many years of following American political thought, one overwhelming truth has emerged: There is nothing as powerful as an idea (be it intelligent or stupid) whose time has come.

Just six months after Google Chrome eclipsed Mozilla's Firefox to become the world's second most popular Web browser, Chrome has also surpassed Microsoft's Internet Explorer to become the most-used Web browser in the world, according to Statcounter.

Chinese fishermen captured and taken to North Korea have been safely returned, but mysteries surrounding the incident remain.

A Chinese conglomerate will buy a major U.S. cinema chain, AMC, for $2.6 billion, in China's biggest takeover of an American company to date.

When you walk into a clothing store, how can you tell which items are actually popular with previous or would-be customers? Brazilian fashion retailer C&A has the answer: Clothes hangers that leverage the 900 million-plus users on Facebook to show who likes a particular item.

This week's economic calendar is relatively light in the U.S. with the releases of existing home sales, durable goods orders, and the University of Michigan consumer confidence survey. Attention will likely focus on data out of Europe. Euro zone PMIs, Germany IFO survey, and first-quarter gross domestic product data for the U.K. will be released.

Day 3 of Bamboozle snuck up on Festival goers. While the first two days were full of warmth and sunshine, Sunday afternoon greeted the crowds with wind and clouds. The foul weather didn't deter the mobs from storming Asbury Park for one last day of jam-packed music. As darkness covered the beach, New Jersey legend Bon Jovi took the stage.

IAEA officials were denied entry into Parchin on two separate occasions earlier this year.

The companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trading on Monday are: Ultra Clean Holdings, Seadrill, Yahoo, Frontline, ABB Ltd, Logitech International, United States Steel, Hewlett-Packard and ARM Holdings.

Futures on major U.S. indices point to a slight rebound on Wall Street Monday after a string of losses last week amid worries Greece might leave the euro and an emerging debt crisis in Spain.

U.S. stock index futures pointed to a higher open on Wall Street on Monday, with futures for the S&P 500 up 0.85 percent, Dow Jones futures up 0.49 percent and Nasdaq 100 futures up 0.79 percent at 0842 GMT.

Asian stock markets rebounded Monday after suffering heavy losses last week amid ongoing worries over the euro zone crisis.

China's Alibaba Group and Yahoo confirmed Sunday night they have reached an agreement that will allow the two online media giants to eventually go their own ways. Alibaba initially will pay an estimated $7.1 billion in cash and preferred stock to Yahoo.