- Asia-Pacific markets rose Thursday.
- Shares of Chinese autonomous vehicle firms WeRide and Pony.ai fell in their Hong Kong debut.
Asia-Pacific markets rose Thursday, tracking Wall Street gains after AMD’s third-quarter earnings beat lifted artificial intelligence stocks.
Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 index rose 1.34% to close at 50,883.68, while the Topix index climbed 1.38% to end at 3,313.45. Japanese artificial intelligence-related companies rose: Advantest, which supplies testing equipment to Nvidia, rose 3.15%, chipmaker Renesas Electronics gained over 3%, while chip equipment maker Disco Corp advanced more than 6%.
South Korea’s Kospi index climbed 0.55% to end at 4,026.45. Shares of Nvidia-supplier SK Hynix closed 2.42% higher. The small-cap Kosdaq fell 0.41% to close at 898.17.
Australia’s ASX/S&P 200 was up 0.3% at 8,828.3.
Source: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/06/asia-pacific-markets-ponyai-debut-hong-kong-weride-ai-stocks.html