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Japan’s Nikkei 225 hit a record high Tuesday for the second straight session, lifted by a tech rally on Wall Street after a large deal between OpenAI and AMD — seen as one of the direct challenges but to chipmaker large Nvidia.
Chip shares have been among the many prime movers on the index. Shares of Advantest rose over 4%, whereas Tokyo Electron added 2%. Lasertec was up 1.35%, and Renesas Electronics superior 4.85%.
The Nikkei 225 hit a contemporary high Monday after Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party elected staunch conservative Sanae Takaichi as its new chief Saturday, positioning her to turn into the nation’s first feminine prime minister.
Meanwhile, the Topix index rose 0.31%. Japanese Government Bond yields rose to all-time highs Tuesday. The yield on the 10-year JGB rose by 2 foundation factors to 1.694% to succeed in the very best stage since July 2008, whereas the 20-year JGB added almost 4 foundation factors to hit 2.734% the very best level since 1999. The yield on the 30-year JGB added greater than 4 foundation factors to three.333%, an all-time high.
One foundation level is the same as 0.01%, and yields transfer inversely to costs.
The Japanese yen weakened 0.11% to 150.49 in opposition to the dollar, falling for a fourth straight session. The forex plunged almost 2% within the earlier session.
Australia’s ASX/S&P 200 fell 0.27%, extending losses from the earlier session.
Chinese, Hong Kong and South Korean markets are closed for the vacations.
U.S. fairness futures have been barely decrease in early Asian hours Tuesday after the main key benchmarks hit contemporary data Monday stateside.
Overnight, the S&P 500 gained 0.36% to finish the day at a contemporary record for the thirty second time this yr. Meanwhile, the tech-heavy Nasdaq superior 0.71% to complete at 22,941.67, after notching its thirty first all-time high of 2025.
Shares of AMD skyrocketed virtually 24% to spice up each indexes after the corporate announced a deal with OpenAI, which may see the latter take a ten% stake within the chipmaker.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average, nonetheless, fell 63.31 factors, or 0.14%, to shut at 46,694.97, weighed down by a decline in shares of Sherwin-Williams and Home Depot.
— CNBC’s Pia Singh, Sean Conlon and Fred Imbert contributed to this report.