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European stocks climbed, extending the Stoxx Europe 600 Index’s first weekly advance in May, as Italy’s Prime Minister Mario Monti said that most European Union leaders support joint bonds for the euro area.

Spain’s central government will analyze “with all caution” requests from regional governments to help them regain access to capital markets, Deputy Prime Minister Soraya Saenz de Santamaria said today after a cabinet meeting.

Catalonia will comply with its budget program and will honor its commitments, the regional government said today.

Monti told Italian television station La7 yesterday that the majority of EU leaders at a Brussels meeting this week backed joint euro-area bonds. He added that Italy can help persuade Germany to support Europe’s “common good” as well.

National benchmark indexes climbed in 13 of the 18 western- European markets. The U.K.’s FTSE 100 added less than 0.1 percent. Germany’s DAX increased 0.4 percent and France’s CAC 40 climbed 0.3 percent. Greece’s ASE sank 3.5 percent.

Lonmin and Fresnillo retreated 1.6 percent to 729 pence and 2.2 percent to 1,317 pence, respectively. Vedanta Resources Plc declined 3.3 percent to 966.5 pence. A gauge of mining companies posted the biggest decline on the Stoxx 600.

Mobistar, Belgium’s second-biggest mobile-phone company, slid 3.4 percent to 25.45 euros and Telecom Italia SpA lost 2 percent to 69.5 euro cents.

U.S. stocks fluctuated as concern about Spain’s finances tempered optimism with data showing American consumer confidence rose to the highest since 2007.

Equities were little changed as Reuters reported that Spain’s Catalonia is running out of debt financing options and needs help, quoting Catalan President Artur Mas. Spain’s government is analyzing “with all caution” requests from regional governments to help them regain access to capital markets, Deputy Prime Minister Soraya Saenz de Santamaria said.

Concern about a worsening of Europe’s debt crisis offset better-than-estimated U.S. economic data. The Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan final index of consumer sentiment climbed to 79.3 from 76.4 the prior month. The gauge was projected to hold at the preliminary reading of 77.8, according to the median forecast of economists.

Chesapeake Energy Corp. rallied 2.6 percent to $15.99. Billionaire investor Carl Icahn, known for pushing for change at the companies in which he invests, has become one of Chesapeake’s largest shareholders, said a person with knowledge of the matter.

Quest Software Inc. jumped 4 percent to $26.18. Dell Inc. is in discussions to acquire the maker of tools that help companies manage their computer systems, according to people with knowledge of the matter.

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U.S. stock futures fell amid concern Spain’s regional governments are having trouble with finances.

Spain’s government is analyzing “with all caution” requests from regional governments to help them regain access to capital markets, Deputy Prime Minister Soraya Saenz de Santamaria said. “These are complex mechanisms, which have to analyzed with all the difficulties and complexities,” she told reporters today after a cabinet meeting.

Investors also awaited the Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan final index of consumer sentiment for May. The gauge climbed to 77.8, the highest since January 2008, from 76.4 the prior month, according to the median forecast of economists.

Global Stocks:

Nikkei  8,580.39 +17.01 +0.20%

Hang Seng 18,713.41 +47.01 +0.25%

Shanghai Composite 2,333.55 -17.42 -0.74%

FTSE  5,313.91 -36.14 -0.68%

CAC  3,017.33 -20.92 -0.69%

DAX 6,284.95 -30.94 -0.49%

Crude oil $90.52 (-0.15%)

Gold $1561.50 (+0.26%)

Asian stocks fell, with the regional benchmark index extending a four-week loss, on concern China’s biggest banks may fall short of loan targets for the first time in at least seven years amid an economic slowdown.

China Minsheng Banking Corp. fell 3 percent, leading banks lower in Hong Kong.

Nikkei 225 8,580.39 +17.01 +0.20%

S&P/ASX 200 -26.65 -0.66%

Shanghai Composite 2,333.55 -17.42 -0.74%

Esprit Holdings Ltd., a clothier that depends on Europe for 79 percent of its sales, lost 3.1 percent in Hong Kong. Sims Metal Management Ltd. slid 6.1 percent in Sydney as the processor of scrap metal forecast full-year earnings will decline.

Asian stocks fell as a survey showed China’s manufacturing may shrink for a seventh month and European leaders meeting in Brussels clashed over how to fight the region’s debt crisis.

Nikkei 225 8,563.38 +6.78 +0.08%

S&P/ASX 200 4,055.8 -11.23 -0.28%

Shanghai Composite 2,351.16 -12.27 -0.52%

Nintendo Co., a maker of video-game players that depends on Europe for a third of its sales, fell 4 percent in Tokyo.

Citic Pacific Ltd., a Hong Kong-based steelmaker with operations in iron-ore mining and property development in China, slid 2.1 percent on concern China needs to do more to support growth.

Hanwha Corp., a trader of petrochemicals and machinery, rose 4 percent in Seoul after its construction unit won an $8 billion deal to build housing units in Iraq.

Change % Change Last

Nikkei 225 8,563.38 +6.78 +0.08%

S&P/ASX 200 4,055.8 -11.23 -0.28%

Shanghai Composite 2,351.16 -12.27 -0.52%