
Hong Kong (AP) – World markets were mostly raised on Friday after Wall Street, Tesla, IBM and Meta Platforms after strong benefits reports.
European markets opened after the European Central Bank reduced its key interest rate on Thursday to 2.75%. The CAC 40 of France increased by 0.2% in early negotiation to 7,958.35, while the Dax of Germany was flat at 7,958.35. The FTSE 100 of Britain increased by 0.2% to 8,667.17.
Future S&P 500 increased by 0.4% and those of the industrial average of Dow Jones added 0.2%.
In Asia, the Nikkei Index 225 of Tokyo increased 0.2% greater than 39,572.49.
The basic inflation rate of Japan, a key indicator of national trends, was 2.5% in January, exceeding the goal of 2% of the Central Bank and paving the way to increase the rise of types D ‘Interest. In the meantime, the December Japan unemployment rate decreased to 2.4% of 2.5% the previous month.
The Kospe in South Korea fell 0.8% to 2,517.37, as the negotiation resumed on Friday after the holidays, during which the Chinese startup Deepseek struck panic in the Ai world. SK Hynix’s shares, an important supplier of Nvidia Corp., fell 9.9%. Another technological giant, Samsung, lost 2.4%.
The Australia S&P/ASX 200 advanced 0.5% up to 8,532.30. In Bangkok, the set dropped by 1.6%.
The markets in Hong Kong and Shanghai remain closed for the lunar New Year holiday.
On Thursday, the S&P 500 increased by 0.5% to 6,071.17, as four out of five stocks went up. The industrial average of Dow Jones added 0.4% to 44,882.13, and the NASDAQ compound won 0.3% up to 19,681.75.
Meta platforms helped increase rates by increasing by 1.6%. The Facebook and Instagram company made a better benefit for the end of 2024 than the analysts expected. Perhaps just as important for the market, he also spoke Artificial intelligence Efforts and said he will continue to invest in space.
Which soothed some of the worries created by DeepSeek When he said he developed a large language model capable of competing with the best in the world without having to use first flight chips. This raised questions about whether all investment was expected for AI chips, data centers and electricity is really necessary and sends a Shock through the markets at the beginning of the week.
Ai Boom has been a main reason for the United States Station run —Se to repeated recordsand threat has affected stocks as Nvidia particularly hard. The chip company that has become the symbol of the Frenzy of AI spent most of the lower Thursday, but ended with a gain of 1% and was one of the strongest forces that They lifted the S&P 500.
Microsoft, who kept the indices, fell 6.2%. The Washington -based software based on Redmond, exceeded the expectations of analysts in the last quarter, but the focus focused on the slowest growth of what was expected in his cloud computing business, which is a central piece of their efforts of the AI.