U.S. stocks kicked off the week on a positive note, with all major averages edging higher in anticipation of significant events including earnings reports from tech giants like Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) on Tuesday and Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) on Thursday, a pivotal Federal Reserve Open Market Committee meeting on Wednesday, and the April’s jobs report on Friday. The S&P 500 rose 0.2% by midday trading in New York, following a 1% surge last Friday. Both the tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 and blue-chip stocks in the Dow Jones made similar gains. Small caps, as tracked by iShares Russell 2000 ETF (NYSE:IWM), outperformed large-cap stocks, rising as much as 0.9%. Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA) grabbed the market spotlight by securing a significant partnership with Chinese search engine giant Baidu Inc. (NYSE:BIDU), which granted the Elon Musk-led company access to its mapping license for data collection on China’s public roads. The deal removes a last regulatory barrier for Tesla’s driver assistance system, known as Full Self-Driving (FSD), to be introduced in China. Shares of Tesla rose as much as 16% Monday. The Bank of Japan sent shockwaves through the ...