• European stocks opened slightly higher Tuesday morning, as investors monitored simmering global trade tensions and the latest batch of corporate earnings.

The pan-European Stoxx 600 was up around 0.2 percent shortly after the opening bell, with most sectors and major bourses in positive territory.

• A rebound in battered Chinese stock markets on Monday helped lift Asian equities, which also drew support from earnings-led gains on Wall Street in a welcome relief for investors grappling with an intensifying Sino-U.S. trade conflict.

MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan was up 0.35 percent.

The Shanghai Composite Index rose 1.4 percent as investors snapped up shares that were hit hard during a four-day losing run.

• Japan’s Nikkei share average gained on Tuesday after index-heavyweight SoftBank jumped on the back of strong first-quarter results, while a rebound in Chinese shares also helped overall sentiment.

SoftBank Group Corp surged 6.5 percent to a nine-month high after it reported a 49 percent jump in quarterly profit, boosted by the sale of its stake in Indian e-commerce giant Flipkart in the first public divestment by its massive Vision Fund.

The Nikkei ended up 0.7 percent to 22,662.74.