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Equity Alert: Asian indices open higher tracking gains on Wall Street

 

MUMBAI--0801 IST--Asian equity indices opened higher Monday tracking global cues as Wall Street gained due to rise in technology stocks. Investors also welcomed the Chinese central bank's decision to keep prime loan rates steady. 

 

The People's Bank of China kept its one-year and five-year prime loan rates unchanged at 3% and 3.5%, respectively. The central bank kept the rates unchanged for the seventh straight meeting, CNBC reported. The one-year rate influences most new and outstanding loans, while the five-year rates affect mortgages, as per the CNBC report. China's CSI 300 index was up 0.8% and the Hang Seng Index was up 0.2%. South Korea's KOSPI rose 1.9% and Australia's SP/ASX 200 Index rose 0.9%. 

 

Japan's Nikkei 225 rose over 2% as the yen declined, leading to robust export earnings for Japanese corporates. The yen sell-off came as the Bank of Japan raised interest rates to a 30-year high of 0.75%, which led to heavy selling pressure on government debt, Reuters reported. On Friday, the US equity indices ended higher for the second consecutive session, led by gains in technology stocks. 

 

Following were the levels of key Asian indices at 0755 IST:

 

Level	Last	Change in %
S P/ ASX 200 INDEX	8702	0.93
KOSPI	4096.93	1.90
Hang Seng Index	25733.03	0.17
CSI 300 Index	4606.62	0.84
TAIEX	28044.03	0.26
TOPIX FIRST SECTION	3414.24	0.90
Nikkei 225 Day	50515.33	2.04

 

 

       

(Adhithya Aji)

 

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Equity Alert: US indices end higher Fri as technology stocks rebound

 

MUMBAI--0734 IST--US equity indices ended higher Friday, as technology stocks rebounded. Shares of artificial intelligence companies rose due to chipmaker Micron Technology's strong guidance for revenue for the current quarter. Shares of the company had recently come under pressure over high valuations and funding concerns. The stock rose 7%. 

 

Shares of tech giant Oracle surged nearly 7?ter TikTok agreed to sell its US operations to a new joint venture that includes the former private equity investor Silver Lake, CNBC reported. The shares of the company had come under pressure last week after media reports said Oracle lost a key investor from one of its data centre projects, which sparked concerns. Nvidia's shares rose about 4?ter US President Donald Trump launched a review that could result in the first shipments of the company's second-most powerful AI chips to China, Reuters reported, citing sources.

 

"Tech in general, particularly the AI-related companies, came under a fair amount of pressure and when Micron reported (on Wednesday) and the market reacted the way that it did, there's the idea that maybe people can come back to these (stocks)," Reuters quoted Thomas Martin, senior portfolio manager at Globalt Investments, as saying

 

Shares of Nike were among the worst hit after the company saw its revenue in its Greater China market decline for the sixth consecutive quarter, as per CNBC.

 

Following are the closing levels of US indices Friday:

 

Index	Level	Change in %
S&P 500	6834.5	0.88
NASDAQ Composite	23307.62	1.31
Dow Jones Industrial Average	48134.89	0.38

 

(Adhithya Aji)

 

US$1 = INR 89.27

IST, or Indian Standard Time, is five-and-a-half hours ahead of GMT

 

Edited by Tanima Banerjee

 

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