Stock Market Today Asian Stocks Track Wall Street Gain With Nvidia Report And Bitcoin Surge

Asian stock rose on Friday following Wall Street gain after market superstar Nvidia and another round of companies said they're making even fatter profits than expected.

U.S. futures fell. Geopolitical tensions pushed oil prices higher. On Thursday, President Vladimir Putin announced that Russia had fired a new intermediate-range ballistic missile at Ukraine in response to Kyiv's use this week of American and British missiles capable of reaching deeper into Russia.

Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 added 1 to 38,415.32 after the nation's inflation data slowed to 2.3 in October from 2.5 in the prior month, reaching its lowest level since January.

The readings will be one of the key topics at the Bank of Japan's policy meeting in December, where some investors anticipate an increase in the short-term policy rate to 0.5 from 0.25.

Australia's SP/ASX 200 rose 1 to 8,407.50. South Korea's Kospi was up 1.2 at 2,509.06. Hong Kong's Hang Seng shed less than 0.1 to 19,594.52, while the Shanghai Composite dropped 0.4 to 3,355.70.