TOKYO -- Japan's Advantest is solidifying its lead in global sales of chip testing equipment, and its share price is hitched to that of chipmaker Nvidia ... but the Japanese player gained the ...

Nvidia fell 2% and was the heaviest weight ... In currency trading, the U.S. dollar edged up to 157.70 Japanese yen from 157.26 yen. The euro cost $1.0255, down from $1.0274.

Asian shares mostly rose Tuesday, deriving optimism from rising technology stocks on Wall Street, led by Nvidia.

A Bloomberg story that the Bank of Japan might lift its inflation forecast due to rice and the yen had an impact, sending the dollar lower vs. the yen. The question is whether the central bank ...

Hopes for a Santa Claus rally on Wall Street fell Friday as tech stocks slid lower, while a weaker yen lifted Japanese equities ... while those in AI chipmaker Nvidia shed around 2.0 percent.

The dollar fell to 157.71 Japanese yen from 158.00 yen ... Semiconductor giant Nvidia, whose enormous valuation gives it an outsize influence on indexes, slipped 0.2%. Meta Platforms fell 0.7 ...