Currency dealers monitor exchange rates as an electronic screen (top) shows South Korea’s benchmark stock index (KOSPI) in a foreign exchange dealing room at the Hana Bank headquarters in Seoul on June 23, 2026. <\/p>\n
Jade Gao | AFP | Getty Images<\/p>\n
Global stock markets finished higher on Friday, after U.S. equities closed mixed on Wall Street in New York’s final trading session of the week.<\/p>\n
U.S. markets were closed on Friday for the Independence Day holiday.<\/p>\n
Shares listed in Europe ended Friday’s session in positive territory following a mixed morning. The pan-European Stoxx 600<\/a> was up 0.69% at market close, hitting a new 52-week high, with the benchmark notching its fourth consecutive weekly rise. <\/p>\n Utilities stocks led regional gains, rising 1.78%, as investors continued to seek out defensive positions.<\/p>\n In Frankfurt, Germany’s DAX<\/a> index closed 0.85% higher, leading Europe’s major bourses, while in Milan, the Italian FTSE MIB<\/a> rose 0.77%. In Paris, the French CAC 40<\/a> ended the session 0.48% higher, and in London, the U.K. FTSE 100<\/a> added 0.19%.<\/p>\n Earlier in Asia, Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225<\/a> led gains, closing up 1.47%, while the Topix was up 1.17%. South Korea’s Kospi<\/a> advanced 5.76%, and the Kosdaq Index declined 1.68%.<\/p>\n Australia’s S&P\/ASX 200<\/a> added 1.37%. Hong Kong’s\u00a0Hang Seng Index<\/a>\u00a0gained 1.28%, while the mainland’s CSI 300 was up 1.15%. Taiwan’s benchmark Taiex inched 0.2% higher.<\/p>\n Overnight in the U.S., stocks ended mixed with the Dow Jones Industrial Average<\/a> closing at a record high after a softer-than-expected June jobs report fueled hopes for Federal Reserve rate cuts. Meanwhile, weakness in semiconductor stocks dragged the Nasdaq<\/a> lower.\u00a0<\/p>\n The 30-stock average added 594.83 points, or 1.14%, for a record close of 52,900.07. The index hit a new all-time intraday high of 52,903.85. The S&P 500<\/a> rose less than 1 point to end at 7,483.24, while the Nasdaq dropped 0.8% to 25,832.67.<\/p>\n Semiconductors fell for a second day in a row, weighing on the latter two benchmarks. The VanEck Semiconductor (SMH) ETF<\/a> dropped 4.5%, led by a 13.6% decline in Teradyne<\/a> and an 11.5% slide for KLA<\/a>. Nvidia<\/a> shares also pulled back 1.4%, while Micron<\/a> shares lost 5.5%.<\/p>\n \u2014CNBC’s Justina Lee contributed to the story. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Currency dealers monitor exchange rates as an electronic screen (top) shows South Korea’s benchmark stock index (KOSPI) in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":523581,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3199,114,357,2968,3198,2969,1012,2970,2967,3449,85,151620,151646,46,1437,36958,7258,10388,1008,1886,3197,1677,7259,11471,18195,15624,36957,1032],"class_list":["post-523580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-asia-economy","tag-business","tag-business-news","tag-cac-40-index","tag-chicago","tag-dax","tag-dow-jones-industrial-average","tag-ftse-100","tag-ftse-mib","tag-hang-seng-index","tag-il","tag-ishares-msci-japan-etf","tag-ishares-msci-south-korea-etf","tag-israel","tag-japan","tag-kla-corp","tag-kospi-index","tag-micron-technology-inc","tag-nasdaq-composite","tag-new-york","tag-nikkei-225-index","tag-nvidia-corp","tag-sp-asx-200","tag-south-korea","tag-stoxx-600","tag-taiwan","tag-teradyne-inc","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523580","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=523580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}