The leading Asian stock exchanges mostly pointed upwards on Tuesday in a situation characterized by tense anticipation of the American tech giant Nvidia's quarterly report, which is being released in the coming days.
In Tokyo, both the important Nikkei 225 index and the broader Topix index had risen by 0.7 percent around lunchtime.
Happy faces were also seen on Hong Kong's Hang Seng index, which lifted by 0.3 percent.
Shenzhen joined the chorus when its composite index lifted by 0.1 percent, while the composite index in Shanghai went in the opposite direction with a decline of 0.4.
