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Asian shares were mixed after the US stock market fell from record highs as Wall Street ignored various developments such as trade ties with China and profits. big tech Giants.
US futures advanced and oil prices fell.
chairman donald trump Hailed his talks with China’s leader on Thursday, Xi JinpingBut major tensions remain between the world’s two largest economies.
Japan’s Nikkei 225 index jumped 1.7% to 52,201.05, hitting a new record after data showed industrial output rose 2.2% month-on-month in September, better than market expectations and recovering from a 1.5% decline the previous month.
In Sugar In the markets, Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index fell 0.9% to 26,050.08 and the Shanghai Composite index slipped 0.6% to 3,963.01.
Data released on Friday showed that factory activity in China declined for the seventh consecutive month in October. The official NBS manufacturing PMI fell to 49.0 from 49.8 in September.
South Korea’s Kospi rose 0.4% to 4,105.81, while Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 rose 0.2% to 8,903.50. Taiwan’s Taiex gained 0.5%.
On Thursday, the S&P 500 fell 1% to 6,822.34, slipping further from its all-time high set Tuesday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped 0.2% to 47,522.12. The Nasdaq Composite closed at 23,581.14, down 1.6% from its record set a day earlier.
Stock markets around the world were mixed after the much-awaited meeting between the leaders of the world’s two largest economies. Trump rated his meeting with Xi a “12” on a scale of zero to 10, saying he would cut tariffs.
But stocks had already hit record highs on hopes of a possible major improvement in trade frictions between Beijing and Washington.
The pressure of high expectations was also being felt on the earnings of big tech companies. The meta platform fell 11.3%, down from a 28.4% jump so far this year. It was the heaviest weighting on the S&P 500. Analysts said investors were nervous about how much Facebook’s parent company has said it plans to spend in 2026. Companies across the industry are on an investment spree to build out their artificial-intelligence capabilities, and the worry is whether it will all pay off.
“There are moments in market history when capital stops behaving like money and starts acting like passion – when spending becomes strategy, not outcome. That’s exactly where we are now with artificial intelligence,” said Stephen Innes of SPI Asset Management in a comment.
Microsoft fell 2.9% despite reporting stronger profit and revenue than analysts expected in the latest quarter. Analysts noted how it expects to spend more on investments in 2026 than in 2025, while growth of its Azure business may fall slightly short of some investors’ expectations.
Among Big Tech’s winners was Alphabet. shares Google’s parent company climbed 2.5% after profit and revenue easily topped analysts’ expectations in the latest quarter.
How such companies perform matters incredibly to investors. The trio of Alphabet, Meta and Microsoft alone account for 14.5% of the total value of all companies in the S&P 500 index, which determines movements for many 401(k) accounts. This means that the movements of them and some other Big Tech companies can easily overshadow hundreds of other stocks.
In other deals early Friday, benchmark U.S. crude oil fell 42 cents to $60.15 a barrel. Brent crude, the international benchmark, fell 42 cents to $63.95.
The US dollar fell to 153.95 JPY from 154.14 yen. The euro rose to $1.1573 from $1.1566.
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AP Business writers Stan Choe and Matt Ott contributed.