Tech leads shares higher in Asia, oil eases

Share markets have edged higher in Asia as AI’s insatiable demand for data buoyed chipmakers, and oil eased as hopes Saudi Arabia could boost supplies offset news of a Houthi attack on Riyadh. Trade was thin with Japan on its Silver Week holiday through to Wednesday, leaving the dollar steady at 157.00 yen with investors wary in case the Bank of Japan took advantage of the lack of liquidity to intervene in support of its currency. The yen jumped on Friday after Japanese authorities conducted rate checks in the currency market, the Nikkei newspaper reported. Japan’s Nikkei was shut on…