Global stock markets rise as investors continue to bet on AI

Asian stocks markets rise, following gains on Wall Street.

A general view shows the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York on October 16, 2026 [File: Yuki Iwamura/AP Photo]

Global stock markets have climbed as investors continue to bet on bright prospects for the tech giants driving the AI boom.

In the United States, all three major stock indexes rose on Tuesday, led by the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite, which gained 1.18 percent.

list 1 of 4 A bad day for Ben-Gvir as he addresses his supporters

list 2 of 4 President Lula calls Bolsonaro’s Brazil exit ‘shameful’

list 3 of 4 Gaza’s women filmmakers turn pain into cinema as new academy launches

list 4 of 4 ‘This is America’: US envoy scolds Cuban diplomat at UN

The benchmark S&P 500 rose 0.6 percent, while the narrower Dow Jones Industrial Average edged up 0.03 percent.

Five of the “Magnificent Seven” tech stocks rose, led by Tesla, up 4.04 percent.

Amazon gained 1.61 percent, while Apple and Alphabet gained 0.93 percent and 0.9 percent, respectively.

Nvidia, the world’s most valuable public company, rose almost 1 percent after announcing a $3bn investment in Meta’s equity offering.

Meta fell 1.64 percent, while Microsoft fell 0.24 percent.

Other big movers in tech included Advanced Micro Devices, Broadcom and Intel, which gained 5.45 percent, 4 percent and 3.61 percent, respectively.

Asia Pacific markets rally

Gains continued in the Asia Pacific on Wednesday, with stock markets in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Australia climbing.

The KOSPI in Seoul led the gains, with the benchmark index up 5.84 percent as of 03:00 GMT.

The surge came as South Korea’s SK Hynix, one of the world’s top three memory chip makers, announced blockbuster third-quarter results on Wednesday, with operating profit soaring about 630 percent year-on-year to 83.33 trillion won ($62.8bn).

SK Hynix shares listed in South Korea surged more than 8 percent following the results.

In Tokyo, the benchmark Nikkei 225 was up 1.26 percent, while the TAIEX in Taipei was up 1.32 percent.

The S&P/ASX 200 in Sydney was up 0.11 percent.

Investors are keenly anticipating upcoming earnings reports from major tech players as they try to gauge whether their massive investments in AI will pay dividends.

Microsoft and Alphabet report their latest results on Wednesday, followed by Amazon on Thursday and Apple on Monday.

On Monday, AI giant Anthropic filed paperwork for its hotly anticipated IPO, reporting a net loss of $80.7bn in the first half of 2026 on $16.3bn in revenue.

Tech firms have poured hundreds of billions of dollars each into AI infrastructure, fuelling debate over whether a speculative market bubble could be forming similar to the one that preceded the 2000 dot-com crash.

Global AI investment is forecast to hit $2.7 trillion in 2026 and $3.6 trillion in 2027, according to Gartner, a technology insights company.

Oil prices, which have been elevated since the start of the US-Israel war on Iran, rose about 1 percent as Asian markets opened on Wednesday amid the ongoing conflict in the Middle East, including hostilities between Saudi Arabia and Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis.

Futures for Brent crude, the global benchmark, stood at about $115 a barrel, up 59 percent from before the war began.

继华尔街股市上涨后，亚洲股市也随之上涨。

2026年10月16日，纽约证券交易所交易大厅全景。[图片：Yuki Iwamura/AP Photo]

由于投资者继续押注推动人工智能繁荣发展的科技巨头的光明前景，全球股市持续攀升。

周二，美国三大股指全部上涨，其中科技股为主的纳斯达克综合指数领涨，上涨1.18%。

列表 1/4 本-格维尔向支持者发表讲话，对本-格维尔来说，这是糟糕的一天

列表 2/4：卢拉总统称博索纳罗退出巴西是“可耻的”

加沙四位女性电影人中的第三位将苦难转化为电影，新学院成立

列表 4/4 “这就是美国”：美国特使在联合国斥责古巴外交官

基准标准普尔500指数上涨0.6%，而道琼斯工业平均指数小幅上涨0.03%。

“七大科技股”中有五只上涨，其中特斯拉领涨，涨幅达 4.04%。

亚马逊股价上涨 1.61%，苹果和 Alphabet 股价分别上涨 0.93% 和 0.9%。

全球市值最高的上市公司英伟达宣布向 Meta 的股权发行投资 30 亿美元后，股价上涨近 1%。

Meta股价下跌1.64%，微软股价下跌0.24%。

科技股中其他涨幅较大的公司包括AMD、博通和英特尔，它们的股价分别上涨了5.45%、4%和3.61%。

亚太市场上涨

周三亚太股市延续涨势，日本、韩国、台湾和澳大利亚股市均出现上涨。

截至格林尼治标准时间 03:00，首尔 KOSPI 指数领涨，基准指数上涨 5.84%。

就在韩国SK海力士（全球三大存储芯片制造商之一）周三公布了令人瞩目的第三季度业绩之际，韩国股市也出现了飙升。该公司营业利润同比增长约630%，达到83.33万亿韩元（628亿美元）。

受业绩公布影响，SK海力士在韩国上市的股票股价上涨超过8%。

东京方面，日经225指数上涨1.26%，台北方面，台湾加权指数上涨1.32%。

悉尼S&P/ASX 200指数上涨0.11%。

投资者们正密切关注各大科技公司即将发布的财报，试图评估他们在人工智能领域的巨额投资是否会带来回报。

微软和Alphabet将于周三公布最新业绩，亚马逊将于周四公布，苹果将于周一公布。

周一，人工智能巨头 Anthropic 提交了备受瞩目的 IPO 文件，并报告称，2026 年上半年净亏损 807 亿美元，收入为 163 亿美元。

科技公司已各自向人工智能基础设施投入数千亿美元，引发了关于是否可能形成类似于 2000 年互联网泡沫破灭前的投机性市场泡沫的争论。

据科技洞察公司 Gartner 预测，全球人工智能投资额将在 2026 年达到 2.7 万亿美元，在 2027 年达到 3.6 万亿美元。

自美以对伊朗发动战争以来一直居高不下的油价，在中东持续冲突（包括沙特阿拉伯与也门伊朗支持的胡塞武装之间的敌对行动）的影响下，周三亚洲市场开盘时上涨了约 1%。

全球基准布伦特原油期货价格约为每桶 115 美元，比战争爆发前上涨了 59%。