Asian stocks rally while global markets show mixed signals

Markets around the world went two separate ways Tuesday as S&P 500 futures barely moved while Asian indexes shot ￰0￱ to CNBC, S&P 500 futures dipped just 0.02% early in the day, with Dow Jones futures flat and Nasdaq 100 futures slipping 0.03%. This quiet open followed a wild Monday where all three major U. S. indexes, including the S&P 500, closed at new all-time highs after three straight winning ￰1￱ rally kicked in late Monday after Nvidia shares surged nearly 4%.

The company announced it would be putting $100 billion into OpenAI to build out new data ￰2￱ one line sent tech stocks flying, pushing the S&P 500 and its cousins to more intraday ￰3￱ stocks jump in Europe but ASMI slashes guidance European markets followed the tech hype early ￰4￱ Stoxx 600 went up 0.3% by mid-morning in London, and most sectors were in the ￰5￱ names like Be Semiconductor rose 0.8%. Infineon jumped 1.8%. STMicro added 2.1%. All of them got a boost from the Nvidia-OpenAI ￰6￱ not every tech stock ￰7￱ and ASML both took ￰8￱ dropped 2.6% after cutting its forecast for the rest of ￰9￱ slid 1.4% in the same ￰10￱ didn’t want anything to do with lowered chip equipment ￰11￱ the bond market, ￰12￱ yields edged lower ahead of Federal Reserve comments expected later in the ￰13￱ Chair Jerome Powell is set to speak, and markets are watching ￰14￱ 10-year yield dropped a basis point to 4.133%.

The 2-year held at 3.599%. The 30-year slipped to 4.75%. Over in Asia, tech optimism fueled strong gains. Taiwan’s Taiex index jumped 1.42%, closing at 26,247.37, a new record.

Australia’s ASX/S&P 200 climbed 0.4% to 8,845.9. South Korea’s Kospi rose 0.51% to 3,486.19, though the Kosdaq lost 0.25%, ending at ￰15￱ hits India’s tech visas as gold reaches new highs Hong Kong saw ￰16￱ Hang Seng dropped 0.99% as Super Typhoon Ragasa ￰17￱ Hong Kong Observatory warned the storm would slam the Pearl River Estuary by Wednesday ￰18￱ mainland China, the CSI 300 barely moved, finishing flat at 4,519.78. Japan’s markets stayed shut for a national ￰19￱ stocks in India are still shaky after a hit on ￰20￱ Donald Trump announced a $100,000 fee for each new H-1B ￰21￱ visas go to high-skilled workers, most of them from ￰22￱ 2024, about 400,000 were issued, and 71% went to Indian ￰23￱ didn’t slow ￰24￱ gold rose 0.2% to $3,753.25 an ounce as of 6:04 a.

m. GMT, hitting $3,759.02 earlier in the session — another ￰25￱ futures for December moved up 0.3% to $3,787.40. The weaker dollar ￰26￱ ￰27￱ index extended losses, making gold cheaper for non-dollar ￰28￱ Europe , German 10-year bond yields erased earlier ￰29￱ sat unchanged at 2.75% after fresh data showed business activity speeding up in September. Sweden’s crown stood still at 9.34 per dollar after the central bank cut interest rates to 1.75%.

It said rates will stay where they are for a ￰30￱ euro was steady at $1.179, bouncing off a Monday low of $1.1726. The dollar slipped to 147.72 yen after reaching 148.37 ￰31￱ prices couldn’t hold ￰32￱ dropped 0.4% to $66.27 a ￰33￱ slipped 0.3% to $62.02. Traders ignored the tension in the Middle East and ￰34￱ much oil on the table was a bigger worry than ￰35￱ Difference Wire : the secret tool crypto projects use to get guaranteed media coverage