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It was a quiet session for major FX pairs, with narrow ranges dominating and virtually no meaningful data to drive direction. Only minor headlines emerged from Australia and South Korea on consumer sentiment, neither of which moved markets.
News flow was similarly subdued. Japan’s PM Takaichi and U.S. President Trump held a call after Trump’s conversation with China’s Xi, though Takaichi’s readout revealed little — a masterclass in saying something without saying anything. Russia and China also pledged closer energy cooperation, but details were scant.
Regional equities here traded mostly higher, taking their cue from Wall Street’s latest rally.
In corporate news, Alphabet jumped in post-market trade after reports that Meta is in talks to spend billions on Google’s TPU chips for future data-centre build-outs and potentially through Google Cloud rentals. The prospect of Meta shifting part of its compute stack toward TPUs hit Nvidia, whose AI GPUs dominate the market today. Meta is reportedly considering deploying TPUs in its data centres from 2027 and may rent capacity from Google Cloud as soon as next year. Google has also agreed to supply Anthropic with up to one million TPUs.
Commodities were mixed: gold edged higher while oil drifted slightly lower.
Asia-Pac
stocks:
Japan
(Nikkei 225) +0.14%Hong
Kong (Hang Seng) +1.2%
Shanghai
Composite +1.1%Australia
(S&P/ASX 200) -0.1%
This article was written by Eamonn Sheridan at investinglive.com.