· European stocks are expected to open lower Thursday morning, as investors monitored a slew of corporate earnings.
Looking to the major bourses, the U.K.'s FTSE 100 is expected to open 7 points lower at 7,511, while the German DAX is set to start on a negative note, down 16points at 13,377, and the French CAC is poised to open 4 points lower at around 5,464, according to IG.
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· Asia stocks stayed closed to a decade-long peak on Thursday following another record-breaking day on Wall Street, though Japan’s Nikkei slid back from a 26-year high in volatile trading, hit by profit-taking.
MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan .MIAPJ0000PUS was up 0.2 percent and in close reach of a 10-year high set the previous day, taking cues from overnight Wall Street gains.
· Japanese shares ended down on Thursday after dramatic intraday swings took the Nikkei and Topix indexes to multi-decade highs only to plunge in the afternoon on futures-driven trading ahead of the following day’s options settlement.
The Nikkei ended down 0.2 percent at 22,868.71, after tumbling from a morning high of 23,382.15 to an afternoon session low of 22,522.83, its biggest one-day move since the election of U.S. President Donald Trump one year ago.
· China stocks rose on Thursday, led by the blue-chip index scaling a fresh two-year high, as investors were encouraged by strong inflation data that showed economic momentum remains robust.
The blue-chip CSI300 index rose 0.7 percent, to 4,075.90 points, while the Shanghai Composite Index closed up 0.4 percent to 3,427.79 points.
· Hong Kong stocks hit another decade-peak on Thursday, as index heavyweight Tencent smashed records again, with investor sentiment underpinned by China’s strong inflation data that pointed to economic resilience.
The Hang Seng index rose 0.8 percent to 29,136.57, while the China Enterprises Index jumped 1.5 percent to 11,744.54 points.
Reference: Reuters, CNBC
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