MANILA, Philippines (AP) — World shares mostly traded higher Thursday after a rally of technology stocks steadied Wall Street and a slide in the dollar made Asian assets more attractive.

The future for the S&P 500 rose 0.1% while that for the Dow Jones Industrial Average shed less than 0.1%.

In early European trading, Germany's DAX climbed 0.4% to 23,690.74 while Britain's FTSE 100 added 0.1% to 9,187.40. In Paris, the CAC 40 slipped 0.2% to 7,703.00.

Japan's Nikkei 225 jumped 1.5% to 42,580.27 while Australia's S&P/ASX 200 added 1% to 8,826.50. South Korea's Kospi rose 0.5% to 3,200.83. Taiwan's Taiex climbed 0.3% while India's BSE Sensex added 0.5%.

The Chinese markets bucked the trend, with Hong Kong's Hang Seng index down 1.1% to 25,056.85. The Shanghai Composite index fell 1.3%

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