Asia-Pacific markets set to open mixed, following Wall Street gains on AMD rally

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Asia-Pacific markets were acceptable to unfastened mostly higher Tuesday, tracking Wall Street gains connected a tech rally fueled by the monolithic woody betwixt OpenAI and AMD, successful 1 of the astir nonstop challenges to chipmaker elephantine Nvidia.

Investors successful Asia volition beryllium keeping an oculus connected spot stocks successful the region.

Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 scale was acceptable for a higher open, with its futures declaration successful Chicago trading astatine 48,705, and its counterpart successful Osaka astatine 48,590, against the index's Monday adjacent of 47,944.76.

Australia's ASX/S&P 200 fell 0.18% successful aboriginal trade, extending losses from the erstwhile session.

Chinese, Hong Kong and South Korean markets are closed for the holidays.

U.S. equity futures were small changed successful aboriginal Asian hours connected Tuesday aft the large cardinal benchmarks deed caller records Monday stateside.

Overnight, the S&P 500 gained 0.36% to extremity the time astatine a caller grounds for the 32nd clip this year. Meanwhile, the tech-heavy Nasdaq precocious 0.71% to decorativeness astatine 22,941.67, aft notching its 31st all-time precocious of 2025.

Shares of AMD skyrocketed astir 24% to boost some indexes aft the institution announced a deal with OpenAI, which could spot the second instrumentality a 10% involvement successful the chipmaker.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average, however, fell 63.31 points, oregon 0.14%, to adjacent astatine 46,694.97, weighed down by a diminution successful shares of Sherwin-Williams and Home Depot.

— CNBC's Pia Singh, Sean Conlon and Fred Imbert contributed to this report.

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