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Stock market news
• An eventful week in markets ends with more muted results as traders await U.S. jobs data, although the lingering threat of a trade war is keeping investors from making big bets. Asian stocks were mostly mixed, except in China, where an artificial intelligence-fueled rally lifted Hong Kong's Hang Seng to a three-month high on Friday and its biggest weekly gain in nearly four months.
• Investors are betting that domestic AI startup DeepSeek's development will lead to a boom in the sector, while they are largely ignoring the trade war saga that began earlier in the...