AI darling Nvidia reports results, London has its sights on a revival in stock listings, while New Zealand's central bank is stuck in rut between lacklustre growth and sticky inflation. Upcoming May business activity numbers from big economies should reinforce a brighter global economic outlook.
The market rally had a quiet Thursday, holding near record highs. Walmart and Tesla rival BYD flashed buy signals, joining Nvidia.
Microsoft said on Thursday it plans to offer its cloud computing customers a platform of AMD artificial intelligence chips that will compete with components made by Nvidia, with details to be given at its Build developer conference next week. Microsoft's clusters of Advanced Micro Devices' flagship MI300X AI chips will be sold through its Azure cloud computing service.