Asia-Pacific markets trade mixed on Thursday as investors continued to weigh U.S. President Donald Trump's recent trade policy announcement. Investors also responded to China's latest move to reverse its sluggish stock market by prompting insurance funds to raise the size and proportion of their investments in Chinese A-shares,

A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Rae Wee After drowning for days in headlines about Donald Trump's return to the White House, investors were delivered a bit of a diversion on Thursday with the announcement of new Chinese measures to boost its ailing stock market.

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Indonesia's parliament proposed on Thursday to revise the country's mining law to help the government accelerate development of its mineral processing industry and to regulate mining permits for religious groups and for universities.

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Asian markets took positive cues from Wall Street, which closed higher on strength in tech stocks. U.S. stock index futures rose in Asian trade, with blowout earnings from Netflix Inc (NASDAQ: NFLX) adding to the positive sentiment. Netflix surged over 10% in aftermarket trade.

Relief from the positive U.S. and UK inflation surprises this week appears to have evaporated, at least as far as equity markets are concerned, even as Treasury yields and the dollar continue to drift lower into the last trading day of the week.

SLB helped lead the market after the provider oilfield services delivered bigger profit and revenues for the end of 2024 than analysts expected. It jumped 6.1% after it also raised its dividend by 3.6% and said it’s returning $2.3 billion to its investors by buying back its own stock.