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NI225 fell 1%.

The White House: US President Trump will deliver a speech in the Rose Garden at noon ET on Friday.

Hong Kong AI application stocks rose at the beginning of the session. McFlyse (02556.HK) rose by more than 11.5%, Fubo Group (03738.HK) rose by more than 5%, Kingsoft (03888.HK), Kingdee International (00268.HK), Mingyuan Cloud (00909.HK), and Weimeng Group (02013.HK) all rose by more than 3%.

The trend of new consumer concept stocks in Hong Kong stocks was divided. Bubble Mart (09992.HK) rose nearly 8%, Bruco (00325.HK) rose more than 3%, Guming (01364.HK) rose more than 2%; Shanghai Auntie (02589.HK) fell more than 3%, and Xiaopeng Group (09868.HK) and NIO (09866.HK) fell more than 2%.

Hong Kong stocks’ Hang Seng Index and Hang Seng Technology Index fell at the beginning of the session, both falling by more than 1%. Semiconductor and biomedical stocks led the market decline.

Amazon Cloud Services (AWS) US East Region 1: Temperatures within a single data center increased.

HSI opened on May 8 (Friday), down 266.49 points, or 1.0%, to 26359.79 points;Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Technology Index opened on May 8 (Friday), down 41.33 points, or 0.81%, to 5079.77 points; The state-owned enterprise index opened down 56.03 points, or 0.63%, to 8863.45 points on May 8 (Friday); The red chip index opened down 19.1 points, or 0.42%, to 4497.64 points on May 8 (Friday).

Hong Kong stocks opened, with the Hang Seng Index opening down 1% and the K&T Index opening down 0.81%; Chuangke Industrial (00669.HK) fell nearly 5%, Tencent Music (01698.HK) and Nongfu Spring (09633.HK) fell more than 3%; ENN Energy (02688.HK) rose more than 3%, and Baidu (09888.HK) rose nearly 3%.

Amazon Cloud Services (AWS): An instance failure in a single Availability Zone within the US-East-1 region is being investigated.

Australia's S&P/ASX200 index opened down 92.60 points, or 1.04%, on Friday, May 8, to 8785.50 points.

US President Trump: I have been briefed on the hantavirus situation and we hope it is well under control.

US President Trump: Had a great meeting with Brazilian President Lula.

US President Trump: The ceasefire in Iran is still in progress.

US President Trump: We are negotiating with Iran.

US President Trump: We will get Qatari aircraft (to be used as Air Force One) by July 4th.

US President Trump: Pakistan has asked the United States not to proceed with the "Freedom Plan" during negotiations with Iran.

NI225 opened down 220.42 points on May 8 (Friday), or 0.35%, to 62613.42 points.

Japan's March labor cash income annual rate was 2.7%, expected to be 3.10%. The previous value was revised from 3.30% to 3.40%.

Japan's overtime wage annual rate in March was 1.9%, compared with the previous value of 3.3%.

Meta Platforms (META.O): Part 2 of Canada’s Bill 22 could have significant negative impacts on Canadians’ privacy and cybersecurity.