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Futures on major U.S. indices point to a small rebound on Monday ahead of key monthly retail sales data.

Japan's economy grew stronger than expected in the third quarter, as a rise in consumer spending offset weakening exports and a strong yen.

Tata Steel, the world's seventh largest steel company, has said its consolidated net profit after tax increased 8.5 percent to 19.79 billion rupees ($440 million) for the second quarter higher than the profit of 18.25 billion rupees ($406 million) in Q1 FY’11.

Rebalancing will also mean moving focus from the financial sector.

Japan will start free trade talks with the European Union next spring, alarmed by the head start made by its main manufacturing rival in Asia, South Korea, which signed a pact with the European bloc last month.

Eurozone industrial output unexpectedly fell in September as the demand for durable goods plunged.

German gross domestic product (GDP) growth slowed to 0.7 percent in the third quarter after increasing sharply by a revised 2.3 percent in the second quarter.

India's index of industrial production (IIP) growth slowed further 4.4 percent to 325.6 for the month of September 2010 as compared to 8.2 percent in the month of September 2009, according to a statement by the Central Statistics Office of the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation.

The top pre-market NASDAQ stock market gainers are: China GrenTech, Dendreon, Geron, A123 Systems, TiVo, Foster Wheeler, DryShips, Approach Resources, and Hudson City Bancorp.

The California Energy Commission has awarded more than $9.6 million in state funding to make components and biofuels required for manufacturing electric vehicles.

The U.S.-South Korea free trade talks broke down as the two sides failed to resolve principal differences over U.S. beef and auto exports to South Korean markets, but Presidents Barack Obama and Lee Myung-bak said they still hoped the deal could be clinched.

The top after-market NASDAQ stock market gainers are: China GrenTech, Perceptron, Sonic Solutions, Brooks Automation, Fuel-Tech, Prospect Capital, Dendreon, FiberTower, and China Sunergy.

The joint statement by participating companies at the G20 business summit in Seoul, Korea, as of Nov. 11, 2010

Unemployment rate in the US remained constant for the third month in October, while nonfarm payroll employment rose more than expected, according to a report by the US Labor Department.

Xi Jinping will likely be China's next President. Given his background, he is likely to favor coastal regions and continue China's export-driven economic model, and therefore unlikely to pursue structural reforms like distributing income to inner regions or taking dramatic steps to cultivate domestic consumption.

One of the predominant economic issues of our day has to do with the “offshoring” or “outsourcing” of American jobs overseas, particularly to developing economies like India and China where costs of labor are significantly less, thereby undermining efforts to reduce the stubbornly high U.S. jobless rate (currently at 9.6 percent)

Valuemart Info Technologies Limited (Valuemart), a Bangalore based Software development and legal process outsourcing (LPO) firm, said it has bagged a contract for legal document processing from a leading US law firm.

China will have an aging population problem comparable to that of Japan and Western Europe in 30 years or so with perhaps important implications for elderly care and manufacturing.

Douglas Clayton, chief executive officer of private equity fund manager Leopard Capital, has launched his second fund focused on Cambodia.

Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in China rose 29 percent year-on-year in July to hit $6.92 billion, data showed on Tuesday.

At a time when Chinese power plants are notorious polluters, Yingli Green Energy, a Chinese solar panel maker, has become an completely integrated manufacturer selling green energy worldwide.