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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 Investors in the region are looking to Chinese autonomous vehicle firms WeRide<\/a> and Pony.ai<\/a>‘s market debut<\/a> in Hong Kong later in the day. Both companies are already listed in the United States.<\/p>\n Pony.ai set the final IPO offer price at 139 Hong Kong dollars a share, according to a filing<\/a>, raising gross proceeds of HK$6.7 billion (about $860 million). WeRide raised HK$2.4 billion<\/a>.<\/p>\n Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225<\/a> index was up 1.45% at the open, while the Topix index climbed 0.98%.<\/p>\n South Korea’s Kospi index jumped 2.5%, leading regional gains and recovering from its decline in the previous session.<\/p>\n The small-cap Kosdaq was 2.01% higher.<\/p>\n Australia’s ASX\/S&P 200 rose 0.58%.<\/p>\n Futures for Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index<\/a> pointed to a higher open, trading at 26,150, against the index’s previous close of 25,935.41.<\/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":117672,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[10387,345,343,344,3199,941,357,7256,7255,3449,85,4486,46,190,3197,75428,75426,125,75427,2965,2966],"class_list":["post-117671","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-breaking-news-markets","tag-business-news","tag-central-banking","tag-currency-markets","tag-hang-seng-index","tag-il","tag-interest-rates","tag-israel","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\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}