{"id":382335,"date":"2026-04-16T10:48:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T10:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/382335\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T10:48:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T10:48:18","slug":"japanese-stocks-hit-new-high-as-ai-boosts-tech-heavy-asian-markets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/382335\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese stocks hit new high as AI boosts tech heavy Asian markets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/markets\/equities\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Equities<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Optimism for more US-Iran talks lifts Tokyo market; South Korea also up 2%<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/5\/6.jpeg\" alt=\"20260416 Tokyo Stock Exchange\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Japanese stocks jumped on Thursday morning,\u00a0following a rally on Wall Street as investors grow optimistic about the possibility of further U.S.-Iran ceasefire talks. (File Photo by Nozomi Okubo)<\/p>\n<p>JADA NAGUMO<\/p>\n<p>April 16, 2026 10:15 JST<\/p>\n<p>Updated on April 16, 2026 17:43 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; Japanese stocks jumped to\u00a0historic highs on Thursday, climbing above their previous record close, following a rally on Wall Street as investors grow optimistic about the possibility of more talks between the U.S. and Iran to end the conflict in the Middle East.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Equities Optimism for more US-Iran talks lifts Tokyo market; South Korea also up 2% Japanese stocks jumped on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382336,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,363,364,6213,49395,6559,2959,3594,1036,220,117,111,139,69,643,370,145],"class_list":{"0":"post-382335","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-asian","12":"tag-boosts","13":"tag-heavy","14":"tag-high","15":"tag-hit","16":"tag-japanese","17":"tag-markets","18":"tag-new","19":"tag-new-zealand","20":"tag-newzealand","21":"tag-nz","22":"tag-stocks","23":"tag-tech","24":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}