19 November 2025, China, Shanghai: Boats sail past downtown Shanghai on the Huangpu River. The tallest building on the skyline is the Shanghai Tower (rear). <\/p>\n
Bernd von Jutrczenka | Picture Alliance | Getty Images<\/p>\n
Asia-Pacific markets opened mixed Tuesday, building on a record-breaking rally in global stocks as investors continued to assess ongoing geopolitical tensions following the U.S.\u2032\u00a0attack on Venezuela<\/a>\u00a0and capture of ousted leader Nicolas Maduro.<\/p>\n Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225<\/a> index rose 1.12%, while the Topix jumped 1.48% to a record high. South Korea’s Kospi lost 0.85%, while and small-cap Kosdaq inched 0.09% higher.<\/p>\n Australia’s ASX\/S&P 200 slid 0.42%.<\/p>\n Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index<\/a> added 0.7%, while the mainland CSI 300 traded flat.<\/p>\n U.S. equity futures were flat in early Asian hours.<\/p>\n Overnight in the U.S., stocks rose even after the U.S.\u2032\u00a0attack on Venezuela<\/a>, as crude oil prices advanced<\/a>\u00a0and investors bet the action would not lead to broader geopolitical conflict.<\/p>\n The\u00a0Dow Jones Industrial Average<\/a>\u00a0gained 594.79 points, or 1.23%, to close at 48,977.18. The 30-stock index also hit a new all-time high in the session. The\u00a0S&P 500<\/a>\u00a0advanced 0.64% and ended at 6,902.05. The\u00a0Nasdaq Composite<\/a>\u00a0added 0.69%, settling at 23,395.82.<\/p>\n \u2014 CNBC’s Liz Napolitano, Fred Imbert and Sean Conlon contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"19 November 2025, China, Shanghai: Boats sail past downtown Shanghai on the Huangpu River. The tallest building on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185101,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[972,941,357,42,1437,190,1886,43,18414,11471,40,38,41,39,1032,18413],"class_list":["post-222627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-australia","tag-breaking-news-markets","tag-business-news","tag-headlines","tag-japan","tag-markets","tag-new-york","tag-news","tag-nicolas-maduro","tag-south-korea","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-united-states","tag-venezuela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222627","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=222627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}