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Asia-Pacific markets rose Thursday, tracking Wall Street gains after AMD’s<\/a> third-quarter earnings beat lifted artificial intelligence stocks.<\/p>\n Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225<\/a> index was up 1.45%, while the Topix index climbed 1.11%. Shares of SoftBank, which fell 10% on Wednesday, recouped losses to gain 1.5%. Artificial intelligence-related companies were also trading higher, with Advantest, which supplies testing equipment to Nvidia, rising 3.73% while chip equipment maker Disco Corp added 4.59%.<\/p>\n South Korea’s Kospi index pared early gains to trade near the flatline, after declining in the previous session. Shares of Nvidia-supplier SK Hynix were up 3.11%.<\/p>\n The small-cap Kosdaq reversed course, falling 0.52%.<\/p>\n Australia’s ASX\/S&P 200 rose 0.28%.<\/p>\n Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index<\/a> rose 0.72%, while the mainland’s CSI 300 was flat in early trading.<\/p>\n Shares of Chinese autonomous vehicle firms WeRide<\/a> and Pony.ai<\/a> fell over 12% and nearly 8%, respectively, in their market debut<\/a> in Hong Kong. Both companies are already listed in the United States.<\/p>\n Pony.ai raised gross proceeds of HK$6.7 billion (about $860 million) in its IPO, according to a filing<\/a>. WeRide raised HK$2.4 billion<\/a>.<\/p>\n U.S. equity futures were little changed in early Asian hours after the Supreme Court expressed skepticism over President Donald Trump’s tariffs, and as AI stocks recovered following a sell-off on valuation concerns.<\/p>\n Overnight, the\u00a0Dow Jones Industrial Average<\/a>\u00a0gained 225.76 points, or 0.48%, to close at 47,311.00. The\u00a0S&P 500<\/a>\u00a0rose 0.37% to finish at 6,796.29, while the Nasdaq Composite advanced 0.65% to settle at 23,499.80.<\/p>\n \u2014 CNBC’s Sean Conlon and Sarah Min contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hong Kong Skyline Nikada | E+ | Getty Images Asia-Pacific markets rose Thursday, tracking Wall Street gains after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[23645,256,254,255,9073,64,63,1053,174,50426,65396,9067,5626,171,9070,37614,155299,105,37615,17263,9072],"class_list":["post-265677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-advanced-micro-devices-inc","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-asia-economy","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-breaking-news-markets","tag-business-news","tag-central-banking","tag-currency-markets","tag-hang-seng-index","tag-interest-rates","tag-markets","tag-nikkei-225-index","tag-pony-ai-inc","tag-stock-listings","tag-technology","tag-weride-inc","tag-world-economy","tag-world-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}