🌏 ASIA (Today) Asian markets are mostly in the green. 🇯🇵 Japan's Nikkei 225 jumped +1.4% to a new all-time record high. 🇰🇷 South Korea's KOSPI surged +1.83%, also hitting a fresh record peak. 🇨🇳 Mainland China's CSI 300 gained +0.25% after March industrial profits grew 15.8% year-on-year. 🇭�

📉 Wall Street closed Thursday in the red after earlier touching fresh all-time intraday highs. The S&P 500 lost 0.41% to 7,108, the Nasdaq dropped 0.89% to 24,439, and the Dow shed 0.36% to 49,310 - dragged down by a tech pullback and rising oil. IBM and ServiceNow tumbled 8% and 18% respective