Asia markets are mostly higher following gains on Wall Street driven by Tesla, IBM and Meta Platforms after strong profit reports

World markets are mostly higher following gains on Wall Street driven by Tesla, IBM and Meta Platforms after strong profit reports. European markets opened higher after the European Central Bank cut a quarter-point interest rate to 2.

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Asian shares are higher after U.S. stock indexes rallied to close out their best week in two months. Hong Kong's benchmark jumped more than 2% after China's central bank kept its key lending rates unchanged.

British investment bank Barclays said on Monday it has appointed former Goldman Sachs banker Paul Johnson as head of equities for Asia Pacific.

Jean-Francois Mesnard-Sense, head of exchange traded products at Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing, said that Hong Kong had become the first market in Asia to offer single stock leveraged and inverse products.

Global shares are trading mixed after Wall Street’s tech superstars tumbled as a competitor from China raised doubts over the recent artificial-intelligence market frenzy. Shares rose in early Tuesday trading in Germany and Britain while falling in France.