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Major indexes are opening broadly higher on Wall Street Monday following seven weeks of declines that nearly ended the bull market that began in March 2020. The S&P 500 is up 0.9% in the early going. The tech-heavy Nasdaq is up 0.6% and the Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 1%. European markets were also higher and Asian markets closed mixed overnight. Treasury yields are slightly higher. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note, which helps set mortgage rates, rose to 2.81%.Ware soared following a report that chipmaker Broadcom is in talks to buy it. Wall Street pointed toward gains before markets opened Monday after dipping close to the edge of a bear market to close the week Friday. Futures for the Dow Jones Industrials rose 1% and the S&P 500 climbed 1.1% in premarket trading. Benchmarks rose in Frankfurt, London and Tokyo and fell in Paris and Hong Kong. Oil prices also gained. Yet it has been a brutal stretch for major markets in the U.S. and globally. On Friday the ...