Lujiazui Business Districk successful Pudong, Shanghai, China.
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Asia-Pacific markets were acceptable to ascent Wednesday, aft Wall Street traded mixed connected hopes that the record-setting U.S. authorities shutdown could beryllium nearing an extremity and AI commercialized stumbling.
Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 scale was acceptable for a higher open, with its futures declaration successful Chicago trading astatine 51,190, and its counterpart successful Osaka astatine 51,110, against the index's Tuesday adjacent of 50,842.93.
Australia's S&P/ASX 200 was flat.
Futures for Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index pointed to a somewhat higher open, trading astatine 26,865, against the index's erstwhile adjacent of 26,696.41.
Investors volition beryllium keeping a adjacent oculus connected SoftBank shares arsenic good arsenic tech stocks successful Asia aft ithe Japanese elephantine said Tuesday it sold its full involvement successful U.S. chipmaker Nvidia for $5.83 billion, arsenic it looks to capitalize connected its "all in" bet connected ChatGPT shaper OpenAI.
Overnight successful the U.S., the 3 large averages closed mixed. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rallied to a caller closing grounds Tuesday, portion the Nasdaq Composite struggled arsenic investors moved wealth distant from exertion stocks into different parts of the marketplace that traded astatine little valuations.
The 30-stock Dow roseate 559.33 points, oregon 1.18%, to adjacent astatine 47,927.96, with those connected Wall Street buying up shares of assorted blue-chip names, including wellness attraction giants Merck, Amgen and Johnson & Johnson. The S&P 500 also roseate 0.21% to decorativeness astatine 6,846.61. However, the tech-heavy Nasdaq mislaid 0.25% to settee astatine 23,468.30.
— CNBC's Sean Conlon and Pia Singh contributed to this report.
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