• The Dow Jones Industrial Average .DJI rose 54.45 points, or 0.2 percent, to 26,828.39, the S&P 500 .SPX gained 2.08 points, or 0.07 percent, to 2,925.51 and the Nasdaq Composite .IXIC added 25.54 points, or 0.32 percent, to 8,025.09.
Wall Street advanced on Wednesday and the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at a record for a second day, after U.S. economic data fueled a rise in Treasury yields, lifting financial stocks.
• Traders now see a 79.7 percent chance of a 25 basis point hike at the December meeting of the Fed, up from 78.5 percent a day ago, according to CME’s FedWatch tool.
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• Asia markets were mostly higher on Thursday morning following a muted performance on Wall Street overnight.
• The Nikkei 225 traded up by 0.36 percent in the morning, while the Topix index advanced by 0.78 percent, with most sectors seeing gains.
Following an announcement Tuesday that Toyota and Softbank would be holding a joint news conference, shares of Toyota were up by 1.97 percent in the morning while Softbank's stock rose by 2.13 percent.
• Down Under, the ASX 200 traded higher by 0.46 percent, with the heavily weighted financial sector seeing gains of 1.02 percent as Commonwealth Bank of Australia advanced by 0.88 percent and Australia and New Zealand Banking Group was up by 1.02 percent.
• In South Korea, however, the Kospi slid by 0.69 percent in the morning, following news reports that Bank of Korea Governor Lee Ju-yeol hinted at a possible policy rate hike later in October.
• China's markets are closed for the Golden Week holidays.
Reference: Reuters, CNBC
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