GLOBAL MARKETS-Stocks climb on Nvidia earnings, Samsung strike suspension

Asian stocks surged on Thursday as some vessels resumed ?passage ?through the Strait of Hormuz, while forecast-beating results at Nvidia and a suspended workers’ strike at Samsung Electronics lifted shares of chipmakers. MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan climbed 2.7%, snapping a four-day streak of losses. South Korea’s KOSPI leapt more than 8% and Taiwanese shares rose almost 4%. Chinese shares bucked the trend, with blue chips shedding ?0.5%. In early European trade, pan-region futures were down 0.2%, German DAX futures nudged 0.1% lower, and FTSE futures slid 0.4%. Brent crude futures climbed 0.9% to $106 a barrel…