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Asia-Pacific markets rose Tuesday after Wall Street gains on revived artificial intelligence optimism and growing hopes that the U.S. government shutdown will end soon.
On Monday stateside, Nvidia stocks jumped 5.8% to lead gains on the S&P 500. Other tech stocks rallied, including Google parent Alphabet, which advanced 4%, and Microsoft, which added 1.9% to end its eight-day losing streak.
Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 index climbed 0.91%, while the Topix index was 0.52% higher. AI-related stocks were among the top movers, with conglomerate SoftBank adding 3.57% and chipmaker Renesas Electron jumping 4.35%.
South Korea’s Kospi index rose 1.94%, extending gains for a second straight day after leading an AI recovery rally across the region Monday. Index heavyweights Samsung Electronics added 4.97% while SK Hynix soared 4.62%. The small-cap Kosdaq was up 1.38%.
Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 rose 0.25%.
Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index climbed 0.4%, while the mainland’s CSI 300 index was flat.
Shares of Chinese electric vehicle maker Xpeng skyrocketed 12.72%, soaring for the second straight day, after it launched robotaxis and humanoid robots with self-developed AI chips at its event last Wednesday. The company’s shares had jumped more than 16% in Monday’s session.
U.S. equity futures were little changed in early Asian hours.
Overnight, the Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 381.53 points, or 0.81%, to end at 47,368.63. The S&P 500 gained 1.54% to settle at 6,832.43, while the Nasdaq Composite advanced 2.27% to finish at 23,527.17.
— CNBC’s Sean Conlon and Liz Napolitano contributed to this report.
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