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By POLYA LESOVA

LONDON—U.S. stock futures rose on Thursday after strong results from iPhone maker Apple buoyed sentiment, while traders awaited another barrage of earnings reports and data on jobless claims.

Shares of Apple rose 4% in premarket trade after the firm late Wednesday reported a 95% surge in quarterly earnings, exceeding Wall Street’s expectations. Futures on the technology-focused Nasdaq 100 rose 23.5 points to 2378.50.

Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 59 points to 12455 and those on the Standard Poor’s 500 stock index advanced 8 points to 1336.30. Changes in futures don’t always accurately predict early market moves after the opening bell.

The gains for stock futures come after a strong session for Wall Street on Wednesday, when the blue-chip Dow index rallied 1.5% as investors’ mood was buoyed by Intel Corp.’s earnings report.

On the economic front Thursday, data on U.S. weekly jobless claims will be reported at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time.

Numerous companies are expected to report earnings Thursday, including banking group Morgan Stanley, fast-food firm McDonald’s and industrial conglomerate General Electric Co. Mobile-phone maker Nokia Corp. is also due to release results.

In corporate news, British oil group BP said it is suing Halliburton, Transocean and Cameron International over their roles in the Deepwater Horizon explosion and subsequent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico last year. In thin premarket trade, shares of Transocean slipped 5% and those of Halliburton fell 2%.

In the commodity markets, gold for June delivery rose $8.80 to $1,507.70 a troy ounce. June crude-oil futures gained 45 cents to $111.90 a barrel.

The dollar, meanwhile, fell sharply against its major rivals. The euro rallied 0.9% to $1.4643 and the dollar index [dropped 0.8% to 73.773.

Write to Polya Lesova at polya.lesova@dowjones.com

By JONATHAN CHENG

NEW YORK—U.S. stock futures plunged deep into the red, joining a global market selloff that started in Tokyo as Japan’s nuclear crisis deepened and worries escalated over the human and economic toll of last week’s devastating earthquake.

Dow Jones Industrial Average futures were off 246 points at 11680 less than an hour before the start of trade, while Standard Poor’s 500-stock futures shed 33 points to 1258 and Nasdaq 100 futures fell 64 points to 2226. Prior to economic data on New York state manufacturing and import prices, Dow futures had been down 244 points, while SP 500 futures plunged 31 points and Nasdaq futures fell 61 points. Changes in stock futures don’t always accurately predict early stock moves after the open.

In Japan, the Nikkei Stock Average plunged 11%, sparking broad declines in Asian and European markets. Germany’s DAX 30 index was particularly hard hit, dropping 4.5% in intraday trading.

Dow futures earlier fell as low as 11611 after two more explosions Tuesday at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear-power plant released large amounts of nuclear material directly into the atmosphere. Prime Minister Naoto Kan warned of “substantial” radiation leaks.

Japan’s Nikkei slumped 10.6%, dragging regional and global benchmark indexes down, on concerns over the country’s radiation levels. WSJ’s Jake Lee and Isabella Steger discuss.

The news sparked a sharp selloff, with the Nikkei Stock Average plunging more than 14% at one point in afternoon trade before recovering slightly. It was still its worst drop since 2008. The fall came on top of Monday’s 6.2% tumble, as investors grew increasingly concerned that Japanese industry could be shuttered for a while.

The Japanese selloff hurt sentiment across Asia, where Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index closed down 2.6% and South Korea’s Kospi fell 2.4%.

In U.S. economic news, New York manufacturing activity continued to expand in March, with more businesses raising prices in the face of higher costs, with a survey of business conditions handily beating expectations. The index for employment also jumped to a reading of 9.09 from 3.61 in February. But profit margins remained under intense pressure.

U.S. import prices also rose more than expected in February as costs increased for energy, industrial supplies and food. The price of goods imported to the U.S. climbed by 1.4% from the month before, the Labor Department said Tuesday, topping consensus estimates of a 0.9% price increase in February.

Investors were also awaiting a monetary-policy meeting by the Federal Reserve on Tuesday.

In premarket trade, shares of General Electric dropped 5.3%, amid concerns about the company’s involvement in the design of all six reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan.

In the commodity markets, crude for April delivery on the New York Mercantile Exchange dropped 3.8% to $97.33 a barrel. Gold dropped sharply, to $1386 an ounce.

The dollar fell against the yen, with analysts citing support for the Japanese currency from domestic retail and institutional investors converting their foreign currency holdings back into yen. The dollar fell to 80.85 yen, from 81.69 yen late Monday. The Australian and Canadian dollar also weakened sharply against the dollar.

By COLIN NG and JOHN PHILIPPS in Singapore and V. PHANI KUMAR in Hong Kong

Most Asian stocks advanced Wednesday on lower crude-oil prices and overnight Wall Street gains, with shares in Tokyo looking past a major earthquake off Japan’s northern coast and cheering upbeat machinery-orders data.

Airline stocks advanced, with Cathay Pacific Airways advancing on the Hong Kong carrier’s 2010 results. Australian shares ended lower as weak commodity prices weighed down miners.

After a slow start to the year, Hong Kong’s IPO market is roaring back, with a slew of companies seeking to raise as much as $8 billion in the city in coming months. WSJ’s Jake Lee and Reporter Isabella Steger discuss.

Japan’s Nikkei Stock Average finished 0.6% higher, South Korea’s Kospi added 0.3%, China’s Shanghai Composite overcame early losses to end up 0.1% and Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index rose 0.4%. Australia’s SP/ASX dropped 0.8%.

Tokyo stocks rose as investors shrugged off a 7.3-magnitude earthquake in Japan, as initial reports suggested that there was little damage to the rural, quake-prepared region.

Better-than-expected data also helped, with automation company Fanuc rising 0.6% as January core machinery orders rose 4.2% month-on-month, outpacing December’s 1.7% rise.

“Today’s report, along with other recent indicators, suggests business spending should continue increasing moderately in the January to March quarter, though it’s still too early to say if it will accelerate,” said Norio Miyagawa, a senior economist at Mizuho Research and Consulting.

Shares of Vantec soared 25.8% on a Nikkei report that Hitachi Transport plans to buy a majority stake in the company.

Telecommunications major KDDI added 3% after announcing a capital and business tie-up with Space Shower Networks to expand its media-content business.

Toyota Motor ended 0.4% higher, with investors focused on the company’s “global vision,” a longer-term business strategy that the auto maker planned to unveil Wednesday. According to a Nikkei report, Toyota aims to lift its group operating profit to more than one trillion yen ($12.2 billion) in two to three years by strengthening its ability to cope with a stronger yen and through additional cost-cutting efforts.

A number of airlines gained as April Nymex light sweet crude-oil futures fell 81 cents at $104.21 a barrel on Globex, extending Tuesday’s losses following reports that allies of Moammar Gadhafi were debating the Libyan leader’s exit. The prospect of Western military intervention in the North African country and the possibility that the U.S. could tap strategic supplies also pressured crude oil.

Korean Air Lines rose 1% and Asiana Airlines Inc. rose 1.5% in Seoul, All Nippon Airways rose 0.7% in Tokyo, EVA Airways jumped 5.9% in Taipei and Qantas Airways added 0.4% in Sydney.

Shares of Cathay Pacific soared 4.5% after the Hong Kong carrier said its 2010 profit nearly tripled and boosted its dividend payout.

Chinese banks advanced on optimism over their upcoming 2010 earnings reports, with the stocks also aided by media reports that the People’s Bank of China had reversed a punitive increase in reserve requirements it had imposed on some lenders. Shares of Industrial Commercial Bank of China added 1.5% and Bank of China rose 1% in Hong Kong; in Shanghai, the stocks outperformed the broad market, rising 0.2% and 2.1%, respectively.

Gains in Shanghai were capped by coal miners and gold firms, which fell in line with a retreat in commodity prices Tuesday. China Coal Energy fell 0.9%, while Shandong Gold-Mining dropped 1.4%.

In Seoul, foreign investors’ sales capped the Kospi’s rise, with Hynix Semiconductor losing 0.9% and Korea Kumho PetroChemical dropping 3.6%.

“Money isn’t yet flowing that actively to emerging markets” due to lingering worries about inflation in the region, Mirae Asset Securities’ analyst Lee Jin-woo said.

In Sydney, BHP Billiton Ltd. dropped 1.3% and Rio Tinto lost 1.8%, hit by lower prices for base metals.

Oz Minerals shed 2.2% on news it was buying the Carrapateena copper-gold project in South Australia.

Bucking the market, Mongolian coal miner Hunnu Coal soared 11.3% after Thailand’s Banpu PCL acquired a 12.4% stake in the company for 45 million Australian dollars ($45.45 million).

Meanwhile, Taiwan’s Taiex closed little changed, New Zealand’s NZX dropped 0.2% and Philippine shares gained 0.7%. In afternoon trade, India’s Sensex was little changed, Singapore’s Straits Times index gave up 0.3%, Indonesian shares rose 0.4% and Thailand’s SET added 0.3%.

Dow Jones Industrial Average futures were down four points in screen trade.

In foreign-exchange markets, the U.S. dollar was at 82.80 yen from 82.67 yen in late New York trade Tuesday, while the euro was at $1.3873 from $1.3905, and at 114.86 yen from 114.96 yen.

“The market felt relieved” as oil prices show signs of stabilizing, said Yuichiro Harada, a trader at Mizuho Corporate Bank, who expects the dollar to stay in a 82.20-83.20 yen range in Asian trade.

The lead March Japanese government bond futures contract was down 0.17 at 139.42 points, while the yield on the 10-year cash JGB was up 0.5 basis point at 1.295%, following weakness in U.S. Treasurys Tuesday.

Spot gold was at $1,425.90 per troy ounce, down $3 from its New York settlement Tuesday.

Write to Colin Ng at colin.ng@dowjones.com

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