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Asia-Pacific markets were set to open mixed Tuesday, as investors weighed renewed uncertainty over U.S.-Iran peace negotiations, while Wall Street benchmark indexes climbed to fresh highs overnight on tech optimism.
Japan’sNikkei 225was poised to rise, with the Chicago futures contract at 67,140 and its Osaka counterpart last trading at 67,260 compared with the index’s previous close of 66,934.33.
In Australia, futures last traded at 8,710, compared with theS&P/ASX 200‘s last close of 8,729.4.
Hong Kong’sHang Seng indexfutures were at 25,207, lower than the index’s last close of 25,398.18.
U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday shrugged off the possibility that peace talks with Iran could fall apart, telling CNBC, “I don’t care if they’re over, honestly.”
“I really don’t care. I couldn’t care less,” Trump told CNBC’s Eamon Javers in a phone interview midday Monday, adding that he felt the drawn-out negotiations had “started to get very boring.”
Trump was responding to a question about reports earlier Monday that Iranian negotiators were considering ending discussions with Washington and moving to “completely block” the Strait of Hormuz in response to Israel’s military campaign in Lebanon targeting the Iran-backed Hezbollah group.
When asked whether Iranian officials had informed him that they would no longer continue negotiations, Trump replied, “No, they haven’t.”
S&P 500 futuresslipped 0.2%, whileNasdaq 100 futuresshed 0.3%.Futures tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Averagefell by 122 points, or 0.2%.
Overnight on Wall Street, theS&P 500rose even as oil prices advanced, withNvidialeading technology higher following the launch of a new chip for PCs.
The broad market index advanced 0.26% to close at 7,599.96, while theNasdaq Compositegained 0.42% to close at 27,086.81. TheDow Jones Industrial Averageadded 46.42 points, or 0.09%, and ended at 51,078.88. All three indexes reached new all-time intraday highs and closed at records.
— CNBC’s Sarah Min and Lisa Kailah Han contributed to this report
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