US markets advanced on Thursday as jobs report and retail sales data were positive. The Dow Jones went up 214 points to 12,604 and the Nasdaq gained 47 points to 2550. Indian ADRs gained big. Tata Communications was up 9.8%, MTNL gained nearly 6%. Most tech ADRs were up over 5%. ICICI Bank advanced 5.5% and HDFC Bank gained 5%.
Nikkei has gained 1.65% to 14,578 points while the Hang Seng advanced nearly 1% to 24,485. Shanghai is down 0.15% and Korea is down 0.1%. Taiwan, Singapore are up over 0.6%.
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