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China’s AI drive hammers tech stocks – Jan 28 2025

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Index Last Change % Change
trading higher

44,713.58 +289.33 0.65%Positive
trading lower

19,341.83 -612.47 3.07%Negative
trading lower

6,012.28 -88.96 1.46%Negative
Index Last Change % Change
trading lower

39,340.15 -225.65 0.57%Negative
trading higher

20,233.88 +36.11 0.18%Positive
trading lower

75,366.17 -824.29 1.08%Negative

Source: LSEG, opens new tab – data delayed by at least 15 minutes

 

Fixed Income

U.S. 10-year Treasury yields fell 9.5 bps, last steady at 4.55% in Asia.

Both US Fed and ECB meet to set interest rates later in the week.

Equities

U.S. stock futures steadied, tech stocks in Asia slid on Tuesday as apparent advances by DeepSeek, a Chinese AI startup cast doubt on U.S. dominance.

NVDA dived 17%, wiping off nearly $593 billion in the biggest market capitalisation loss in history.

NVDA’s supplier Advantest down 10% on Tuesday, taking losses for the week so far to nearly 19%.

Further sharp falls for AI-backer SoftBank Group down 5.5%, and data-centre cable maker Furukawa Electric down 8%. Both had already fallen heavily on Monday, with SoftBank now 13% lower after two days and Furukawa down 20%.  (GOOGL.O), fell 4.2% (MSFT.O), fell 2.1%, with both steadying in after-hours trade.

China markets closed, Hong Kong trade closes at noon.

Forex

USD fell nearly 1% against JPY overnight and 0.4% against CHF, steadied back up in Asia trade.

BTC dropped below $100,000 for the first time in a week before steadying around $101,700.

Commodities

Gold declined more than 1% as investors liquidated bullion.

Oil dropped 2% on worries about energy demand.

 

 

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