Summary of Overnight News: The FTSE-100 will open sharply higher this morning, pushed by a strong performance in New York last night. Elsewhere, IBM s second-quarter profit rose nearly 11 percent, slightly exceeding analysts forecasts despite another period of lacklustre revenue growth. Executives acknowledged weakness in IBM s two biggest divisions, services and hardware. In Asia, share prices rebounded in the morning session, after the Nikkei slumped over 400 points yesterday, as bargain hunters stepped back into the market supported by Wall Street s overnight rise. However, while the broad picture was brighter, there was a reluctance to push the upside too aggressively ahead of US June CPI data, Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke s testimony to Congress starting later today, and a string of earnings reports from US high-tech firms such as Intel Corp, Apple Computer and Microsoft, due out this...

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