World shares are mixed as US Senate votes to end the government shutdown
[November 11, 2025] By
CHAN HO-HIM
BANGKOK (AP) — Shares advanced in Europe on Tuesday after a retreat in
Asia, as investors took the latest step toward ending the U.S.
government shutdown in stride.
Markets showed little reaction after the Senate passed legislation to
reopen the government.
The future for the S&P 500 lost 0.2% while that for the Dow Jones
Industrial Average edged 0.1% lower.
In Germany, the DAX rose 0.2% to 24,015.97, while the CAC 40 in Paris
gained 0.7% to 8,109.23. Britain's FTSE 100 jumped 1% to 9,887.95.
Shares have been bouncing on criticism that tech share prices have shot
too high due to the mania for artificial intelligence, which some have
likened to the 2000 dot-com bubble that ultimately burst. Investors are
also betting on the potential for an end to the shutdown and for the
U.S. Federal Reserve to cut interest rates.
“Sentiment is everything,” Ipek Ozkardeskaya of Swissquote said in a
commentary. “It’s how investors perceive the news: if they’re in a good
mood, they interpret it positively; if they’re in a bad mood, they see
it negatively. One picture, one word, one data point is enough to twist
and turn market mood.”
In Tokyo, the Nikkei 225 lost 0.1% to 50,842.93.
Shares in technology giant SoftBank Group Corp. fell 2%. The company
announced after trading closed that it had sold all its stake in
artificial intelligence chip maker Nvidia last month for $5.83 billion.
The U.S. dollar climbed to 154.37 against the Japanese yen, up from
154.14 yen and near its highest level since February. Expectations that
the government will push back its schedule for trimming Japan's huge
national debt, boosting spending, have helped to weaken the yen.
The euro fell to $1.1557 from $1.1558.
Chinese shares ended mixed. Hong Kong's benchmark Hang Seng index
rallied late in the day to gain 0.2%, closing at 26,696.41 and the
Shanghai Composite index shed 0.4% to 4,002.76.
South Korea’s Kospi, recovering from last week's sell-off, closed 0.8%
higher at 4,106.39.
Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 dropped 0.2% to 8,818.80.
Taiwan’s Taiex fell 0.3%, while the Sensex in India climbed 0.4%.
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A television screen is displayed in the window of the Nasdaq
MarketSite, in New York's Times Square, Friday, Nov. 7, 2025. (AP
Photo/Richard Drew)
 On Monday, Big Tech and other
superstars of the U.S. stock market got back to rallying, and Wall
Street recovered most of its loss from last week.
The S&P 500 climbed 1.5% and the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose
0.8%. The Nasdaq composite rallied 2.3%.
Nvidia was by far the strongest force lifting the market and leaped
5.8%. It was a powerful rebound after Nvidia and other winners of
the frenzy around artificial-intelligence technology led last week’s
drop. Critics say their stock prices shot too high and too fast in
the AI mania, drawing comparisons to the 2000 dot-com bubble that
ultimately burst.
Drops for several health insurers helped keep the market’s gains in
check. They fell as uncertainty remains about whether Washington
will extend expiring health care tax credits, a sticking point on
Capitol Hill that’s created the longest-ever shutdown for the U.S.
government.
Elsewhere on Wall Street, Berkshire Hathaway slipped 0.4% as its
CEO, famed investor Warren Buffett, warned shareholders that many
other companies will fare better in the decades ahead because of
Berkshire Hathaway’s massive size. Buffett, 95, is set to step down
in January.
Roughly four out of every five companies in the S&P 500 that have so
far reported their results for the summer have also topped analysts’
profit expectations, according to FactSet. Companies usually beat
analysts’ estimates each quarter, but the pressure was high this
time around because they needed to justify the big moves upward for
their stock prices since April.
Delivering bigger profits is one of the easier ways companies can
quiet criticism that their stock prices have become too expensive.
In other dealings early Tuesday, U.S. benchmark crude oil lost 31
cents to $59.82 per barrel. Brent crude, the international standard,
shed 29 cents to $63.77 per barrel.
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