Asia-Pacific markets are set to trade higher, tracking Wall Street gains

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Asia-Pacific markets are acceptable to commercialized higher, tracking Wall Street gains aft the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite hit caller records arsenic investors look to shingle disconnected tariff concerns.

Here are your opening calls from Singapore

Aerial View of the City Illuminated astatine Sunset

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Good greeting from Singapore! The upwind forecast is simply a spot bleak, but Asia-Pacific markets look acceptable for a agleam open.

Futures for Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 successful Chicago were astatine 39,795, portion their counterpart successful Osaka past traded astatine 39,740 compared with the index's past adjacent of 39,646.36.

Futures for Hong Kong's Hang Seng index stood astatine 24,032, pointing to a somewhat higher unfastened compared to the HSI's past adjacent of 24,028.37.

Australia's S&P/ASX 200 was besides acceptable to commencement the time somewhat higher with futures tied to the benchmark astatine 8,600, compared to its past adjacent of 8,589.2.

— Lee Ying Shan

Stock futures unfastened small changed

S&P 500, Nasdaq notch grounds closing highs

The S&P 500 notched a caller all-time closing precocious connected Thursday. The wide marketplace benchmark roseate 0.27% and closed astatine 6,280.46.

The Nasdaq Composite besides closed astatine a grounds precocious for the 2nd time successful a row, gaining 0.09% to extremity astatine 20,630.67.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 192.34 points, oregon 0.43%, to decorativeness astatine 44,650.64.

— Lisa Kailai Han

Bitcoin sets different grounds supra $113,000

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Bitcoin climbed to caller all-time precocious of $113,863.31 connected Thursday, gathering connected its erstwhile record reached conscionable a time earlier, arsenic investors jumped into hazard assets and liquidated abbreviated positions.

Over the past 24 hours, $318 cardinal successful abbreviated liquidations person occurred crossed centralized exchanges, according to CoinGlass.

Altcoins, oregon cryptocurrencies different than bitcoin, joined the rally for a 2nd time aft galore investors had started to suffer hope that they would amusement signs of beingness this year. 

Bitcoin has traded successful a choky scope for respective weeks despite billions of dollars flowing into bitcoin speech traded funds, which has helped the terms enactment supra the $100,000 level for much than 60 consecutive days. Public companies person besides been connected a bitcoin buying spree and outpaced bitcoin ETF inflows successful the 2nd quarter.

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— Tanaya Macheel

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