Asian Markets Today: Kospi surges 5%, Nikkei gains 3% after Wall Street's best day in 7 months - What's fuelling rally?

The Kospi rose about 5% and the Nikkei gained roughly 3% in Asian trading, following what the headline describes as Wall Street's best session in seven months. The transmission channel appears to be a broad rise in risk appetite, with overnight U.S. equity strength lifting regional sentiment and drawing capital back into Asian equities. The Kospi's larger move points to heightened sensitivity in South Korea's market, where index composition is heavily weighted toward semiconductors and export-linked names that tend to react more sharply to shifts in global risk sentiment. The S&P 500's strong close is the primary reference point, so traders should watch whether the U.S. rally holds at the next open and whether Asian gains persist into the following session. The specific driver of the U.S. advance is not stated in the headline, so the next confirmation point is the upcoming U.S. inflation or rate-expectations data that would validate or reverse the move.

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