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World markets rose Thursday as investors grew more comfortable with riskier assets such as stocks after a pledge by the IMF to help stave off a financial crisis and as hopes rose for an agreement on the restructuring of Greece's debt.

World markets fell Friday despite positive economic data out of the U.S., as a political shake-up in Greece added to worries that the country might be forced to default on its debt.

Assurances from the Federal Reserve that the U.S. economic recovery is still on track helped support world markets Thursday, despite some bleak economic data from post-earthquake Japan.

World markets were mostly higher Thursday as investors took heart from figures showing an improving economic picture in the U.S. and signs that tensions had cooled at least temporarily on the Korean peninsula.

U.S. stock futures are rising Tuesday, following world markets higher after the central bank of Japan moved to weaken the yen.

World stock markets tumbled Monday, dragged down by weak U.S. employment figures and fresh fears that Europe's debt crisis is spreading.

World stocks slid to their lowest level since Sept '09 and the euro and oil fell on Tuesday on worries over Europe's banking sector and concerns over tensions on the Korean peninsula.

Global policymakers cobble together a rescue package worth about $1 trillion to stabilize world markets and resolve the Greek debt crisis that threatened to sink the euro.

European leaders agreed to provide a huge rescue package to regain lost credibility with investors, and early reaction from world markets was positive.

Stocks tumbled as concern swept world markets that financial trouble in the Middle Eastern city-state of Dubai will upend a global economic recovery.