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Japan's Nikkei 225 reversed an early decline on Wednesday as falling oil prices and lower US Treasury yields eased pressure on growth stocks, while investors positioned cautiously before Nvidia's closely watched earnings. The benchmark was up about 0.6% at 66,271 around 1 pm in Tokyo, after falling earlier in the session.

Japanese stocks were lower after U.S. technology shares fell overnight.

Advantest provides testing and measuring products for the semiconductor industry.

Japanese stocks were higher due to eased fears about the Fed's potential rate increases and gains in U.S. technology stocks overnight.

The Nikkei 225 Index slumped by over 5% today, July 17, as the rout in Asian technology companies accelerated. It has now moved into a technical correction after falling by 12% from its highest point this year.

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Leading semiconductor test equipment supplier Advantest Corporation (TSE: 6857) and OpenLight, a leader in heterogeneous silicon photonics integration and custom Photonic Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (PASIC) design, today announced their plans to partner and develop solutions for scalable, high-volume silicon photonics testing. As AI and high-performance compu...