Stock market today: Asian shares zoom higher, with Nikkei over 42,000 after Wall St sets new records

The Nikkei 225 jumped 0.9% to close at 42,224.02, again surpassing its all-time high after closing at records on Tuesday and Wednesday.

TSMC’s U.S.-listed shares rose 3.5% on Wednesday after it said its revenue climbed nearly 33% in June from a year earlier. The company makes chips forThe promise of big profits in the future from AI has sent Nvidia in particular to breathtaking heights over the last year, and Nvidia rose another 2.7% Wednesday to bring its gain for the year so far to 172.5%.

Later Thursday, the U.S. government will release the latest monthly update on inflation. Economists expect it to show U.S. consumers paid prices for food, airline tickets and everything else that were 3.1% higher in June than a year earlier. That would be a touch slower than May’s 3.3% inflation rate.

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