Business, General Japan’s Nikkei opens up 2% as Asia markets mostly climb ahead of a week of central bank decisions October 7, 2024 Economists polled by Reuters expect the BOK and RBNZ to cut rates, while the RBI will hold.
SoftBank leads decline in Japanese tech stocks as worries over AI spending spill over to Asia The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite slipped 1.81%, dragged by losses in Oracle, Broadcom, Nvidia and other AI names.
China to hold military drills around Taiwan as warning to ‘separatist forces’ The drills come days after the US announced the sale of one of its largest weapons packages to Taiwan.
Iran says US has responded to its latest peace proposal Before reviewing the proposal on Saturday, US President Donald Trump said he could not imagine it “would be acceptable”.