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U.S. stocks held steady Monday morning, with markets showing zero urgency after back-to-back winning weeks on Wall Street. According to data from CNBC, Dow Jones futures inched up by 57 points, or 0.13%, while the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 ticked up 0.14% and 0.21%. Traders stayed cautious as everyone waited for the next Fed signal, but optimism about interest rate cuts still hung over the market like leftover smoke. Last week closed strong for the three major indexes. The Dow rose 1.7%, while the S&P 500 added 0.9% and the Nasdaq Composite moved 0.8% higher. That makes it the second week in a row of gains for all three. The S&P and Nasdaq have now logged four out of five green weeks. But the real action came from small-cap stocks, which jumped over 3%, as bets intensified that the Federal Reserve will ease rates soon, despite inflation data trying to say otherwise. Asian markets climb after summit ends with no ceasefire Overnight, Asia-Pacific markets mostly climbed, reacting to the U.S.-Russia summit ending without any truce. Japan’s Nikkei 225 made a new all-time high at 43,683.56, and the Topix index gained 0.53%, helped by stronger tech sentiment. Meanwhile in South Korea, it was the opposite story. The Kospi dropped 1.25%, and the Kosdaq lost 1.52%, weighed down by investor fears over regional earnings and slowing demand from China. It’s in line with an earlier report by Cryptopolitan mentioning that South Koreans are ditching big tech stocks to move into Ethereum. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index nudged up 0.19%, and mainland China’s CSI 300 improved by 0.34%. The uptick followed new local data hinting at moderate momentum in industrial output. Over in Australia, the S&P/ASX 200 briefly touched an intra-day high of 8,960 before cooling off, but still closed 0.14% higher.…

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