US President Donald Trump speaks to reporters aft stepping disconnected Air Force One astatine Joint Base Andrews connected Dec. 17, 2025.
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Asia-Pacific markets were acceptable to autumn Thursday arsenic investors connected Wall Street continued to rotate retired of tech and markets look toward an code by U.S. President Donald Trump.
The code is slated to beryllium delivered Thursday astatine 10 a.m. Singapore clip (Wednesday stateside 9 p.m. ET). Trump is expected to talk astir his accomplishments successful his archetypal 11 months successful bureau and marque the lawsuit for his administration's actions against Venezuela.
On Wednesday, Trump designated the Venezuela authorities arsenic a ‘terrorist’ authorities and ordered a blockade of sanctioned lipid tankers.
White House property caput Karoline Leavitt told reporters Tuesday that Trump would besides sermon his plans to "continue delivering for the American radical implicit the adjacent 3 years."
Brent futures climbed 2.95% to commercialized astatine $60.66 a barrel, portion West Texas Intermediate futures are 1.88% astatine $56.99.
Over successful Asia, the Bank of Japan volition footwear disconnected its two-day meeting, with the cardinal slope expected to rise rates to 0.75% Friday.
Australia's S&P/ASX 200 slipped 0.12% successful aboriginal trade.
Japan's Nikkei 225 futures pointed to a weaker unfastened for the market, with the futures declaration successful Chicago astatine 49,170, and its counterpart successful Osaka astatine 49,040, compared to the erstwhile adjacent of 49,512.28.
Hong Kong's Hang Seng index futures were astatine 25,304, little than the HSI's past adjacent of 25,468.78.
Overnight successful the U.S., each 3 large indexes fell, with the S&P 500 down 1.16%, and the Nasdaq Composite seeing the largest nonaccomplishment of 1.81%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped 0.47%.
Artificial intelligence-related stocks dragged indexes aft the Financial Times reported that Oracle's superior investor, Blue Owl Capital, pulled retired from backing 1 of its information halfway projects. Shares of the AI banal tumbled 5.4%.
Other stocks tied to the AI commercialized besides fell, including chipmaker Broadcom, AI darling Nvidia, and Advanced Micro Devices.
—CNBC's Pia Singh, Sean Conlon and Liz Napolitano contributed to this report.
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