Aerial view by drone of Tokyo Cityscape with Tokyo Sky Tree visible in Tokyo city, Japan on sunrise.<\/p>\n
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Asia-Pacific markets mostly fell Tuesday, after the tech sell-down on Wall Street continued on AI bubble fears.<\/p>\n
Nvidia<\/a>\u00a0shares dropped more than 1% Monday stateside, giving back some of its more than 5% gain in last week’s period.\u00a0Palantir Technologies<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Meta Platforms<\/a>\u00a0also suffered losses, as did\u00a0Oracle<\/a>.<\/p>\n Japan’s Nikkei 225<\/a> was down 0.18%, while the broad-based Topix was 0.17% lower. <\/p>\n Shares of Softbank Group Corp<\/a> slipped over 2% before paring some losses, after the company announced a deal<\/a> late Monday to buy data center investment firm\u00a0DigitalBridge<\/a>\u00a0for $4 billion as part of its artificial intelligence push. <\/p>\n SoftBank CEO and Chairman Masayoshi Son said the acquisition “will strengthen the foundation for next-generation AI data centers” and advance the firm’s vision to become a leading “Artificial Super Intelligence” platform provider. Shares of DigitalBridge jumped about 10% after the announcement.<\/p>\n South Korea’s Kospi<\/a> reversed losses to gain 0.1%, while the small-cap Kosdaq declined 1.02%. <\/p>\n Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index<\/a> opened with marginal gains, while the CSI 300 in mainland China was down 0.42%.<\/p>\n Investors will be focused on China’s military exercises around Taiwan, after the world’s second-largest economy announced new drills surrounding the island Monday. <\/p>\n The Taiwan Weighted Index<\/a> was down 0.66%, with major tech names like Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company<\/a> and Hon Hai<\/a> down about 1% and 0.65% respectively. <\/p>\n Australia’s\u00a0S&P\/ASX 200<\/a> was flat, after registering gains earlier in the day. <\/p>\n U.S. futures were little changed in early Asian hours. <\/p>\n Overnight in the U.S., the\u00a0S&P 500<\/a>\u00a0dropped 0.35%, while the\u00a0Nasdaq Composite<\/a>\u00a0shed 0.50%. The\u00a0Dow Jones Industrial Average<\/a>\u00a0pulled back by 0.51%.<\/p>\n Traders will be looking for home price data due Tuesday stateside at 9 a.m. ET, and the Federal Reserve’s December meeting minutes at 2 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n \u2014CNBC’s Sean Conlon and Fred Imbert contributed to this report. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aerial view by drone of Tokyo Cityscape with Tokyo Sky Tree visible in Tokyo city, Japan on sunrise.…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":479178,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[6],"tags":[8000,7998,133,64,81,960,217116,7994,117287,170,7995,135,749,206348,7997,15242,26768,145,23824,755,149,217117,67,132,68,7999],"class_list":["post-479177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-asia-economy","tag-breaking-news-asia","tag-breaking-news-markets","tag-business","tag-business-news","tag-chicago","tag-digitalbridge-group-inc","tag-hang-seng-index","tag-hon-hai-precision-industry-co-ltd","tag-japan","tag-kospi-index","tag-markets","tag-masayoshi-son","tag-moore-threads-technology","tag-nikkei-225-index","tag-osaka","tag-palantir-technologies-inc","tag-sp-500-index","tag-softbank-corp","tag-softbank-group-corp","tag-taiwan-semiconductor-manufacturing-co-ltd","tag-taiwan-weighted-index","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-world-markets"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}