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Japan's Nikkei 225 index topped 68,000 for the first time on Wednesday after US stocks pushed further into record territory. The dollar briefly surpassed 160 Japanese yen before slipping back slightly. Oil prices rose more than USD 1 a barrel. Buying of technology shares linked to the boom in artificial intelligence has been driving rallies worldwide. By midafternoon, the Nikkei 225 was up 2.9% at 68,634.74. Shares in computer chip equipment maker Tokyo Electron gained 13.4%, while those for chip testing equipment maker Advantest gained 5.9%. In Hong Kong, the Hang Seng lost 1.7% to 25,596.92, while the Shanghai Composite index added 0.4% to 4,092.53. Australia's S&P/ASX 200 advanced 0.9% to 8,806.40 and Taiwan's Taiex gained 2%. In India, the Sensex lost 1.1%. Markets in South Korea were closed for a holiday. On Tuesday, winners of the artificial-intelligence boom kept driving higher, pushing US stocks to more records. "One thing that stands out in today's market is how littl
World shares advanced, and Tokyo's Nikkei 225 share index jumped as much as 5 per cent to a record on Monday after Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's governing party secured a two-thirds supermajority in a parliamentary election. In early European trading, Germany's DAX gained 0.6 per cent to 24,864.59, while the CAC 40 in Paris edged 0.2 per cent higher, to 8,288.06. Britain's FTSE 100 was up 0.3 per cent at 10,399.61. US futures edged higher after the US stock market roared back on Friday as technology stocks recovered much of their losses from earlier in the week and bitcoin halted its plunge. The future for the S&P 500 added 0.1 per cent, while that for the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 0.2 per cent. On Friday, the S&P 500 rallied 2 per cent for its best day since May. The Dow industrials soared 2.5 per cent, topping the 50,000 level for the first time. The Nasdaq composite leapt 2.2 per cent. The combination of a rebound in tech shares, Wall Street's rally and