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Asia-Pacific markets traded mixed on Tuesday, reversing earlier gains and breaking ground with Wall Street, which had risen on renewed optimism about artificial intelligence and rising hopes that the U.S. government shutdown would soon end.
In the US on Monday, Nvidia The stock rose 5.8%, leading the S&P 500’s gains. Other tech stocks also rose, including parent company Google. alphabetprogressed by 4%, microsoftup 1.9%, ending an eight-day losing streak.
Japanese benchmark Nikkei Stock Average The index fell by 0.14% to end at 50,842.93, while the TOPIX index rose by 0.13% to end at 3,321.58 amid volatile trading. AI-related stocks on the Nikkei Stock Average competed with conglomerates for higher prices. Softbank Add 1.98% to 22,695, chip maker Renesas Electron It rose 1.14% to 1,871.
shares of Oryx Shares rose 0.54% to 3,883 after the Japanese financial conglomerate said on Tuesday it would launch a $2.5 billion private equity fund in partnership with Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund, the Qatar Investment Authority.
Orix said in a press release that the fund will make investments worth at least 30 billion yen (approximately $200 million) in Japanese companies “primarily targeting business succession, privatization of listed companies, and carve-outs.” Orix and QIA will invest 60% and 40%, respectively.
Japanese technology giant sony group’s Shares rose 5.51% to 4,520 shares after the company reported higher second-quarter profits and announced up to $648 million in share buybacks. The company’s operating profit increased by 10% compared to the same period last year, and sales increased by 5% due to gains in the Imaging & Sensing Solutions and Music segments.
South Korea’s Kospi index rose 0.81% to 4,106.39 on Monday in choppy trading after leading gains in AI recovery across the region. Leading stocks in the index, Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, rose 2.88% and 2.15%, respectively, narrowing their previous gains.
australian S&P/ASX 200 The stock reversed and traded 0.19% lower at 8,818.8.
hong kong Hang Seng Index was flat, while the mainland’s CSI300 index fell 0.91% to close at 4,652.17.
Stock prices of Chinese electric car manufacturers Spen The company soared 17.93% to its highest price since the end of 2022 after announcing robotaxis and humanoid robots equipped with self-developed AI chips at an event last Wednesday. The company’s shares rose more than 16% in Monday trading.
India’s Nifty 50 index and Sensex index were flat.
US stock futures were little changed in the first half of Asian trading.
Overnight, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 381.53 points, or 0.81%, to end at 47,368.63. The S&P 500 Index rose 1.54% to end at 6,832.43, and the Nasdaq Composite Index rose 2.27% to end at 23,527.17.
—CNBC’s Dylan Butts, Sean Conlon and Liz Napolitano contributed to this report.
