A man looks at an electric stock board of a securities firm in Tokyo Wednesday, April 25, 2012. Asian stock markets rose Wednesday after earnings from Apple Inc. and other U.S. companies blew past expectations, providing a distraction from the economic and political turbulence intensifying in Europe over its debt crisis. Japan's Nikkei 225 rose 1 percent to 9,562.30 as the yen slipped against the dollar, a movement generally benefiting the country's exporters. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)