Good morning and welcome to Markets Desk, your Monday morning read on what's moving.
Japan's Nikkei two twenty five is sitting at a fresh record closing high after seven straight sessions of gains totaling nearly eleven percent, pushing the index just above seventy one thousand two hundred fifty points. That kind of run invites profit taking, and traders are broadly expecting some consolidation when Tokyo opens Monday.
Across the region, Malaysia's Kuala Lumpur Composite Index has also strung together seven consecutive winning sessions, adding roughly two point three percent to sit just above seventeen ten. Like Tokyo, the momentum looks stretched, and the path of least resistance heading into Monday may well be sideways to lower as buyers step back and let the market breathe.
Turning to the artificial intelligence space, Anthropic's Claude platform has seen a sharp acceleration in demand through two thousand twenty six, but the company remains private and out of reach for retail investors. That gap has sharpened interest in publicly traded AI names, with analysts pointing to a handful of stocks positioned to capture similar tailwinds without waiting for an IPO that has no confirmed timeline.
That's the tape. Markets Desk, signing off the floor.
