Wall Street extends winning streak thanks to late rally in tech stocks

Events: Japanese foreign minister Yoko Kamikawa hosts her G7 counterparts in Tokyo for two days of meetings. Foreign and defence ministers of Japan and the UK will hold bilateral meetings during the summit. The Reserve Bank of Australia holds an interest rates meeting. Westpac chief economist Luci Ellis expects the cash rate to rise by a quarter-point to 4.35 per cent. Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese concludes a four-day visit China. Mongolian president Khurelsukh Ukhnaa a concludes three-day visit to Laos.

Economic indicators: China announces October trade figures. Japan releases labour and household spending data for September. Japan Automobile Dealers Association provides new motor vehicle sales figures for October. The Philippines issues October inflation data.

Corporate results: Japanese companies reporting second-quarter earnings include Daikin, Mazda Motor, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Nintendo, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone, Sony and Suzuki Motor. South Korea’s Coupang announces third-quarter figures and Singapore Airlines reports for the second quarter.

Ecuador’s centre-right president-elect Daniel Noboa has tapped Sariha Moya, a relatively unknown economist, to be his finance minister when he takes office next month.

Both are 35 years old, suggesting the millennial business heir will continue to focus on boosting youth prospects as he promised during the campaign.

Moya, who has spent most of her career in public office, previously worked at the country’s planning and development secretariat and at the finance ministry. She joined Noboa in a meeting with the IMF in Washington over the weekend.

Noboa takes office next month after narrowly winning a snap election in October, though his term will probably be dominated by a campaign for re-election in 2025. 

Shares of Dish Network notched a record one-day drop after the cable television company missed Wall Street expectations, even as it races to complete a $4bn merger with satellite network group EchoStar.

Dish swung to a surprise loss of 26 cents a share, falling short of analysts’ forecasts for earnings of 5 cents a share, according to a LSEG poll, while revenues of $3.7bn narrowly missed expectations.

The pay-TV company is one of several in its sector that has struggled to hold on to subscribers as streaming options proliferated in the past decade.

Dish shares plunged to 37.4 per cent on Monday to close at a 25-year low, and leaving them down by three-quarters in 2023.

OpenAI is launching custom versions of ChatGPT that can be adapted and tailored for specific applications, turning the chatbot interface into a digital platform such as iOS or Android.

Known as GPTs, the tools can be built using plain English for cases such as tutoring a child in maths, creating a travel concierge or designing a website. The Microsoft-backed artificial intelligence company led by Sam Altman, chief executive, said it planned to launch a GPT Store in the coming weeks, to collate the best apps, and eventually split revenues with the most popular GPT creators.

Read more about the OpenAI expansion here.