Asian shares are higher after Wall Street steadies itself as Alphabet rallies

Asian shares are higher after Wall Street steadies itself as Alphabet rallies 19 mins ago Shares in Asia are mostly trading higher after a rally of technology stocks steadied Wall Street and a slide in the dollar made Asian assets more attractive. U.S. futures were mixed while oil prices were lower. The S&P 500 added 0.5% Wednesday and broke the two-day losing skid it's been on since setting its latest all-time high. The Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped 0.1%, and the Nasdaq composite climbed 1%. Google’s parent company Alphabet was one of the strongest forces lifting the market after avoiding some of the worst-case scenarios in an antitrust case.