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Hong Kong (AP) – World markets usually rose on Friday after winning on Wall Street, powered by Tesla, IBM and Meta platforms after strong profit reports.
European markets opened higher after the European Central Bank has reduced its main interest to a quarter point to 2.75% on Thursday. The CAC 40 of France rose by 0.2% in early trade to 7,958.35, while the Dax of Germany was flat at 7,958.35. The British FTSE 100 had risen 0.2% to 8,667.17.
S&P 500 Futures rose by 0.4% and that for the industrial average of Dow Jones added 0.2%.
In Asia, the Nikkei 225 index of Tokyo was 0.2% higher to 39,572.49.
The core inflation of Japan, an important indicator of national trends, rose to 2.5% in January, as a result of which the objective of the central bank surpassed 2% and released the road for further interest rate increases. In the meantime, the unemployment rate of Japan for December fell to 2.4% of 2.5% in the previous month.
The Kospi in South Korea dropped 0.8% to 2,517.37 when the trade resumed on Friday after the holidays, with the Chinese startup Deepseek panic in the AI world. SK HYNIX shares, an important supplier of Nvidia Corp., fell by 9.9%. Another tech giant, Samsung, lost 2.4%.
The S&P/ASX 200 of Australia has 0.5% advanced to 8,532.30. In Bangkok the set fell by 1.6%.
Markets in Hong Kong and Shanghai remain closed for the New Year’s holidays of the Moon.
On Thursday, the S&P 500 rose 0.5% to 6,071.17 when four of the five shares in the index climbed. The industrial average of Dow Jones added 0.4% to 44,882.13 and the Nasdaq composite won 0.3% to 19,681.75.
Meta platforms helped to push indexes higher by increasing 1.6%. The company behind Facebook and Instagram delivered a better profit for the end of 2024 than the expected analysts. Perhaps just as important for the market, it has also spoken artificial intelligence Efforts and said it will continue to invest in space.
Who calmed some of the worries created by Deep When it stated that it developed a large language model that was able to compete with the best in the world without having to use top chips. That raised questions about whether all investments for AI chips were expected, data centers And electricity is really necessary and sent one shock through markets at the beginning of the week.
The AI tree has been a primary reason for that of the US stock market Run to repeated recordsand the threat has hit shares as Nvidia Especially difficult. The chip company that has become the symbol of the AI racing spent the largest part of Thursday lower, but ended with a win of 1% and was one of the strongest forces that cancel the S&P 500.
Keeping indexes under control was Microsoft, who fell 6.2%. The software giant, based in Washington, based in Washington, was the expectations of analysts for winnings in the last quarter, but the focus was on the slower growth in his cloud computing business instead instead, a center of his AI efforts.
