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[MARKET ANALYSIS] Asia-Pac stocks trade mixed as tech stocks attempt to rebound from recent AI-related selling, while the region also digests mixed Chinese activity data

Sessions framed around a tech rebound after AI-related selling follow a familiar sequence: the initial de-rating in crowded AI-linked names, a pushback from political or industry actors, then a tentative recovery led by the most-shorted or highest-beta stocks, here the Japanese tech complex.

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APAC Stocks:

  • Asia-Pac stocks trade mixed as sentiment gradually improved following the recent tech-related selling that was triggered by calls from key industry CEOs for a slowdown in AI development, which President Trump pushed back against, while participants digest mixed Chinese activity data and await the major central bank meetings.

ASX 200: -0.9%

  • Underperforms amid weakness in the mining, materials, resources and financial sectors, while risk sentiment is also not helped by the rising yield environment.

Nikkei 225: +0.9%

  • Reversed its initial declines and reclaimed the 64,000 level amid a tech rebound with SoftBank leading the recovery, while Kioxia also benefited from reports that Kioxia is weighing a US listing next year.

KOSPI +0.2%

  • Gradually clawed back opening losses but with upside limited amid the choppy gains in the local tech giants.

Hang Seng & Shanghai Comp: Hang Seng -0.3% / Shanghai Comp Flat

  • Chinese markets lack firm direction, with several data releases including the continued contraction in House Prices and mixed activity data in which Industrial Production topped forecasts but Retail Sales disappointed, while Fixed Assets Investment weakened and the Urban Unemployment ticked higher.

US Equity Futures: Marginally lower

  • US index futures remain subdued following the tech-led declines on Wall St and upside in yields.

European Equity Futures +0.3%

  • Indicate a positive cash market open with Euro Stoxx 50 futures up 0.3% after the cash market closed with losses of 1.0% on Monday.
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Whether such rebounds hold has historically depended less on the headline trigger than on positioning and the yield backdrop, and the note's reference to a rising yield environment is the operative constraint, since duration-sensitive tech tends to struggle for a sustained bounce while real yields are climbing. The Chinese data split, production firm against soft consumption and continued property weakness, is a recurring pattern that has typically kept pressure on the stimulus question rather than resolving it, and it explains the underperformance of the resources-heavy Australian index against the tech-led Nikkei. The session is explicitly positioned as a placeholder ahead of major central bank meetings, a configuration in which conviction flows tend to stay thin and reversals into the events are common. Worth noting is the divergence mechanism: commodity-linked bourses trade off the Chinese demand signal, while North Asian indices trade off the US tech complex and the rate path.

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