Sensex Today | Stock Market LIVE Updates: Asian equities opened higher on Thursday, tracking overnight gains on Wall Street, where investors returned to tech stocks and upbeat U.S. labor data lifted sentiment.
Japan’s Nikkei and South Korea’s Kospi both climbed about 1% at the open, while U.S. equity futures were mixed after the Nasdaq 100 rose 0.7% and the S&P 500 advanced 0.4% as buyers stepped in following a brief tech-led pullback.
Global Markets Watch
- S&P 500 futures fell 0.2% as of 9:26 a.m. Tokyo time
- Hang Seng futures rose 0.8%
- Japan’s Topix rose 0.9%
- Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 rose 0.4%
- Euro Stoxx 50 futures fell 0.1%