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Asian stock markets climb after earlier tech rout
Key indexes in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong made substantial gains on Monday, following a rebound on Wall Street on Friday.
In Tokyo, the benchmark Nikkei 225 was up 3.45 percent as of 04:00 GMT. In Taipei, the Taiex was 5.72 percent higher, while the Kospi in Seoul was up 1.68 percent. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index was up 0.19 percent.
Futures for Wall Street’s benchmark S&P 500 index and the tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 were up 0.60 percent and 0.59 percent, respectively. They had dipped earlier following US-based chip giant Nvidia’s announcement that it would investigate its CEO over a romantic relationship he conducted with a woman accused of being a Chinese spy.
