Asia-Pacific markets set to open higher, tracking Wall Street gains as tech rally continues

Asia-Pacific markets were acceptable to unfastened higher Thursday, tracking Wall Street gains arsenic investors shrugged disconnected concerns of an artificial intelligence bubble.

Nvidia shares advanced Wednesday stateside aft CEO Jensen Huang said that request for AI computing is "substantially" up successful the past six months. Stocks of CoreWeave besides jumped aft the AI unreality supplier unveiled caller tools to assistance programmers make AI agents.

The Bank of England connected Wednesday warned of a "sharp marketplace correction" if the AI bubble bursts — the latest successful a agelong database of banks and investors to measurement successful connected whether an AI bubble is forming arsenic markets tick into the 4th quarter. 

Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 scale was acceptable for a higher open, with its futures declaration successful Chicago trading astatine 48,250, and its counterpart successful Osaka astatine 48,160, against the index's Wednesday adjacent of 47,734.99.

Australia's ASX/S&P 200 roseate 0.33%.

Futures for Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index pointed to a higher open, trading astatine 26,863, against the index's erstwhile adjacent of 26,829.46.

South Korean markets are closed for a holiday.

U.S. equity futures were small changed successful aboriginal Asian hours aft the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite scored caller records Wednesday stateside arsenic investors shrugged disconnected the authorities shutdown successful its 2nd week.

Overnight, the wide scale S&P 500 climbed 0.58% to adjacent astatine 6,753.72, notching its eighth winning time of the past nine. Gains connected the scale were led by the accusation technology, utilities and industrials sectors, which notched caller closing highs.

The Nasdaq Composite rose 1.12% to decorativeness astatine 23,043.38. That's the archetypal clip the technology-heavy scale has closed supra the 23,000 mark.

However, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 1.20 points to extremity the time astatine 46,601.78.

— CNBC's Alex Harring, Sean Conlon and Sarah Min contributed to this report.