TOKYO (Reuters) - Asian shares, the euro and commodities rebounded on Tuesday, with stocks holding a touch above 2012 lows, as investors looked to European policymakers and the wider G7 to take decisive action to address the worsening euro zone crisis.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Expectations for U.S. corporate earnings are deflating fast as the euro zone crisis deepens and economic data around the world disappoints.

TAIPEI (Reuters) - Ford Motor is in talks with its partners to introduce indigenous brands in China, while it focuses on building up its own brand in the world's biggest auto market, its China chief said on Monday.

TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan's Acer Inc said on Monday it would remain closer to U.S. chipmaker Intel, even though Microsoft also embraces rival ARM for its new Windows 8 operating system.

PARIS (Reuters) - Ex-trader Jerome Kerviel arrived in court on Monday to appeal against a three-year prison sentence for his role in France's biggest-ever rogue trading scandal, which cost French bank Societe Generale 4.9 billion euros ($6.1 billion).

BEIJING (Reuters) - Investors counting on China to repeat its huge 2008-09 stimulus to backstop global economic growth are failing to recognize Beijing's limited scope to deliver another major spending surge.

(Reuters) - Stock index futures pointed to a lower open on Wall Street on Monday, with futures for the S&P 500 down 0.3 percent, while Dow Jones and Nasdaq 100 futures were 0.5 percent lower at 05:12 a.m. EDT (0912 GMT).

(Reuters) - Lawyers for Hewlett-Packard Co and Oracle Corp will face off in court on Monday for opening statements in a bitter lawsuit over Oracle's decision to end support for HP's Itanium-based servers.

BERLIN/PARIS (Reuters) - When Jean-Claude Trichet called last June for the creation of a European finance ministry with power over national budgets, the idea seemed fanciful, a distant dream that would take years or even decades to realize, if it ever came to be.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian court has ordered a new hearing into a $13 billion lawsuit brought against BP by minority shareholders in its Russia's venture, TNK-BP , over a failed deal between BP and Rosneft , a BP lawyer said on Monday.

LISBON (Reuters) - Portugal's budget targets for 2012 are ambitious but it has the capacity to hit them, its international lenders said on Monday, saying the recession-mired country's bailout program was on track despite being undermined by rising unemployment.

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Scania Chief Executive Leif Ostling, who will leave the position to join the board of majority-owner Volkswagen , told Reuters on Saturday he expects the European truck market to shrink by about 10 percent this year.