New Delhi, 13 February (H.S.): International bourses transmitted bearish cues on Friday, with U.S. indices extending losses for a second straight session on Thursday due to artificial intelligence-related anxieties before a marginal Dow Jones futures rebound, while European markets closed mixed and Asian counterparts grappled with pervasive selling pressure.

Wall Street's prior session saw the S&P 500 plummet 108.71 points or 1.57% to 6,832.76, Nasdaq Composite shed 473.04 points or 2.05% at 22,593.43, though Dow futures traded marginally higher by 0.05% at 49,477.93; Europe's FTSE index declined 0.67% to 10,402.44, DAX edged down 0.01% to 24,852.69, while CAC rose 0.33% to 8,340.56.

Asian markets predominantly flashed red across seven of nine tracked exchanges—one up, Taiwan closed for holiday—highlighted by Shanghai Composite's 0.70% drop to 4,105.04, Hang Seng's 1.87% or 505.54-point plunge to 26,527, Straits Times' 1.32% slide to 4,950.39, Nikkei's 0.82% or 474.84-point fall to 57,165, Jakarta Composite's 0.23% dip to 8,246.61, SET Composite's 0.17% weakness at 1,439.08, and sole gainer KOSPI up 0.26% to 5,536.86; Gift Nifty echoed the gloom, down 0.79% or 204 points at 25,647.

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Hindusthan Samachar / Jun Sarkar