Asian Shares Gain, Gold and Silver Climb After Wall Street Retreat

• Asian markets mostly rose, with South Korea's Kospi gaining 1.6% and Hong Kong's Hang Seng up 0.1%, despite a tech stock sell-off on Wall Street.
• Tokyo's Nikkei 225 dropped 0.8% from a record high, with chipmakers Tokyo Electron and Advantest, and SoftBank Group seeing declines.
• Nintendo shares plunged 11% despite strong profits, as concerns arose about the sustained sales momentum of the Switch 2 console.
• Gold and silver prices climbed significantly (3.3% and 7.3% respectively), attracting renewed buying interest as safe-haven assets amid geopolitical tensions and a weaker US dollar.
• US benchmark crude oil and Brent crude advanced, partly due to resurfacing tensions between the US and Iran.