An electronic quotation board displays the Nikkei 225 stock prices on the Tokyo stock Exchange in Tokyo on Nov. 5, 2025.<\/p>\n
Greg Baker | Afp | Getty Images<\/p>\n
Asia-Pacific markets opened mostly higher Tuesday, after AI trade lifted major Wall Street indexes overnight. <\/p>\n
Nvidia<\/a>\u00a0shares rose more than 1% after Reuters said the company was looking to start<\/a> shipments of its H200 chips to China by mid-February.\u00a0Micron Technology<\/a>\u00a0climbed around 4%, while\u00a0Oracle<\/a>\u00a0advanced more than 3%.<\/p>\n Australia’s\u00a0S&P\/ASX 200<\/a> rose 1.1% to close at 8,795.7, marking a fourth straight day of gains. <\/p>\n Japan’s Nikkei 225<\/a> ended marginally above the flatline at 50,412.87, extending gains to a third day. The broad-based Topix gained 0.53% to 3,423.25, led by financials and healthcare stocks.<\/p>\n On Tuesday, Japan’s Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama reportedly said<\/a> the country had a “free hand” in dealing with the yen’s recent sharp depreciation, signaling a currency intervention was not off the table. <\/p>\n The yen<\/a> weakened sharply on Friday, despite the Bank of Japan raising interest rates to a 30-year high, hitting a low of 157.77 against the dollar before strengthening on Monday and Tuesday. It was last trading at 156.14.<\/p>\n Katayama said that the Japanese currency’s fluctuations do not reflect economic fundamentals, describing them as “speculative.” <\/p>\n South Korea’s Kospi<\/a> climbed 0.28% to 4,117.32, also clocking a three-day winning streak, but the small-cap Kosdaq slipped 1.03% to 919.56.<\/p>\n Shares of shipbuilding firm Hanwha Ocean surged 10%<\/a> after U.S. President Donald Trump said the company was going to work with the U.S. Navy to build its new frigates. <\/p>\n Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index<\/a> bucked the trend and was down 0.1% in its last hour of trade, with basic materials stocks leading the slide, while mainland China’s CSI 300 extended its winning streak to three days, gaining 0.2% to close at 4,620.73.<\/p>\n Chinese newcomers lit up the Hong Kong market on their debut Tuesday, with QingSong Health Corporation and Nuobikan Artificial Intelligence Technology jumping 134% and 323%, respectively, after their strong albeit small IPOs.\u00a0<\/p>\n QingSong Health Corporation’s Hong Kong IPO was met with overwhelming demand<\/a>, with the domestic tranche subscribed 1,421 times, according to its exchange filing, raising nearly 602 million Hong Kong dollars (about $77 million). Nuobikan, saw its Hong Kong public tranche subscribed 188.74 times<\/a>, raising HK$303 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An electronic quotation board displays the Nikkei 225 stock prices on the Tokyo stock Exchange in Tokyo on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[261],"tags":[291,289,290,4055,4053,491,207,18,4050,19,17,4051,188,21958,4052,190,82,4048,4054],"class_list":{"0":"post-247366","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-asia-economy","12":"tag-breaking-news-asia","13":"tag-breaking-news-markets","14":"tag-business-news","15":"tag-eire","16":"tag-hang-seng-index","17":"tag-ie","18":"tag-ireland","19":"tag-kospi-index","20":"tag-markets","21":"tag-micron-technology-inc","22":"tag-nikkei-225-index","23":"tag-sp-500-index","24":"tag-technology","25":"tag-usd-jpy","26":"tag-world-markets"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115768307432020702","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}