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Equity Alert: Most Asia mkts up, buying in tech stocks helps Kospi, Nikkei 

 

MUMBAI--802 IST--Asian indices opened on a mixed note with South Korea's benchmark Kospi and Japan's Nikkei 225 leading the gains. Australia's S&P/ASX 200, Hong Kong's Hang Seng, Indonesia's IDX Composite were lower. The rise in technology stocks in the US stock markets overnight likely supported the Kospi and the Nikkei 225.

 

Kospi was higher for the fourth session in a row. Heavyweights SK Hynix Inc and Samsung Electronics were up over 7% and 5%, respectively. Shares of companies involved in semiconductor equipment manufacturing such as HANMI Semiconductor Co. and Jusung Engineering were up 4%, Jusung Engineering and those of ISU Petasys Co. rose over 8%. 

 

The Nikkei was up around 1.5% and Topix was up 0.5%. Among the constituents of Japan's key 225-stock stock index, Advantest Corp. and Disco Corp. were up over 5% and Tokyo Electron almost 4%. Shares of computer memory chip manufacturer Kioxia Holdings Corp. rose as much as almost 10%. 

 

Following are the levels of key indices in the region at 0803 IST:

 

Index	Level	Change in %
Nikkei 225 Day	68601.73	1.60
TOPIX FIRST SECTION	4161.59	0.55
S&P/ASX 200 Index	9163.20	(-)0.50
KOSPI Index	6857.74	4.24
Hang Seng Index	25414.33	(-)0.10
CSI 300 Index	4722.0785	0.66
FTSE Singapore Strait Times	5695.28	(-)0.45

 

(Ruchira Kagita)

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Equity Alert: Nasdaq, S&P 500 close higher as tech stocks rebound

 

MUMBAI--0745 IST--US indices ended mixed with the Dow Jones Industrial Average falling for the third trading session in a row. The technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite and the broader market S&P 500 closed higher after ending the red for two straight session due to gains in stocks linked to artificial intelligence. 

 

On the sectoral front, eight of the 11 S&P 500 sector indices ended in the green. The S&P 500 Real Estate and the S&P 500 Information Technology performed the best and closed 1.07% and 106% higher, respectively. 

 

The US retail inflation rate dipped 3.4% on year for July, a tad lower than 3.5% for June. The index for energy increased 14.7% on an yearly basis and the gasoline index rose 24.6% over the same period. Core inflation, which excludes the volatile food and energy prices, rose 2.5% on year 0.2% on month. Inflation remains, however, remains above the Federal Reserve's 2% target. 

 

"Even though there's going to be another release before the September meeting, I think there's already enough here to take that September hike off the table," State Street economist Simona Mocuta was quoted as saying by The Wall Street Journal. The probability of rates being unchanged at the September policy stood at 59.9%, up from 51.6?rlier. 

 

Following were the closing levels of major US indices Wednesday:

 

Index	Level	Change in %
Dow Jones Industrial Average	53770.27	(-)0.04
NASDAQ Composite	26588.48	0.54
S&P 500	7748.50	0.26

 

(Ruchira Kagita)

 

US$1 = INR 95.33

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

 

Edited by Akul Nishant Akhoury

 

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