The EUR/USD widened its intraday gain to 0.50%, trading at 1.0474.
Eastern Selection (01797.HK) continued its decline, expanding its decline to 10%.
The FTSE A50 widened its losses to more than 1 per cent in late afternoon trading, while the Nasdaq Golden Dragon China index widened its losses to 2.7 per cent.
The Nasdaq expanded its gains to 2 percent, with the S & P 500 up 0.93 percent and the Dow up 0.27 percent. NVIDIA (NVDA. O) expanded its gains to 7.4 percent.
The Hang Seng index fell in the afternoon, with the Hang Seng Technology Index widening its decline to 1.2%.
Oil prices in the United States and Burkina Faso both rose to 2% in early trading, as the impact of last week's U.S. energy sanctions on Russia continued.
Spot gold's short-term decline widened to $13, briefly falling below $2,650 an ounce. Spot silver fell more than $0.2 to $29.82 an ounce.
The Nasdaq index widened its losses to 2 percent in late trading, while Nvidia (NVDA. O) fell 6 percent and Tesla (TSLA. O) fell nearly 5 percent.
WTI crude oil rose by 1.00% to $74.33/barrel; cloth oil rose by 0.88%.
The Nasdaq expanded its gains to 1%, the S & P 500 gained 0.75%, and the Dow gained 0.49%.
WTI crude oil rose by 2% to $69.55/barrel, while Brent crude oil rose by 1.67%.
South Korea's Seoul Composite widened its decline to 2 percent, its lowest level since November 2023.
Nvidia's intraday decline widened to 3%, after initially rising about 5%.
WTI crude oil rose by 1.00% to $69.66 a barrel.