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Asian stocks markets are mixed as uncertainty over Greece’s debt swap talks continues.

A mixed bag of earnings didn’t help Japan, where the Nikkei fell eased from its three-month high.

Here’s how the markets look:

Japan’s Nikkei 225 is down 0.17%

Korea’s Kospi Index is up 0.12%

China’s Shanghai Composite is down 1.43%

Hong Kong’s Hang Seng is up 0.07%

Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 is up 0.30%

This comes after U.S. stocks closed moderately lower on Monday.

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Twitter indicates that there were 10,000 tweets per second during the final three minutes of last night’s Superbowl.

This is a huge jump from last year’s Superbowl, which saw a high of 4,064 tweets per second.

Here are some other notable events and their corresponding tweets per second, as reported by TechCrunch.

• Premiere of Japanese movie “Castles in the Sky:” 25,088
• New Year’s Eve 2011 in Japan: 6,939
• Steve Jobs’ death: 6,049
• The Japanese earthquake and tsunami: 5,530
• Bin Laden’s death: 5,106
• The Royal wedding in England: 3,966 TPS.

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Well actually the weekend has been over for awhile now, but yes, the tone is negative to start the week.

Many markets are down over 0.5%, including US futures, and Japan’s Nikkei, which is shown here.

This should be a big week: First, it’s jobs week, culminating with the Non-Farm Payrolls report on Friday.

But in terms of event risk, it’ll all be about Greece debt talks, which should plenty of headline-fodder all week.

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Earlier we published a recent presentation from US Global Investors CEO Frank Holmes on emerging markets, commodity, and gold demand.

These two charts on China really stood out.

And..

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Asian markets started the day sharply higher, after Apple posted one of the most impressive earnings beats in recent history.

The company reported revenue of $46.3 billion, topping estimates by $7.57 billion.

A market update is below.

Japan’s Nikkei has increased 1.0% to 8,869.

Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 is up 1.0% to 4,266.

The South Korean Kospi has added 0.9% to 1,968.

Singapore’s FTSE Straits Times Index is up 0.9% to 2,875.

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