LONDON (MarketWatch) -- European shares rose in early trading on Tuesday, with oil producers such as Total (FR:FP 41.19, -0.41, -0.97%) , up 1.4%, firm as light sweet crude futures moved back towards $70 a barrel. Shares of French food producer Danone (FR:BN 32.99, -0.42, -1.26%) rose 3.4% after it was upgraded to overweight from equalweight at Morgan Stanley, while technology stocks such as Infineon Technologies (DE:IFX 2.45, -0.12, -4.68%) , up 3.3%, were strong after Texas Instruments (TXN 19.77, +0.09, +0.46%) raised its second-quarter revenue and earnings per share targets late Monday. The U.K. FTSE 100 index rose 0.8% to 4,438.07, the German DAX 30 index climbed 0.7% to 5,040.33 and the French CAC-40 index rose 1% to 3,322.81. |