Asian stocks were rising on Thursday after Wall Street's three main stock indexes logged strong gains overnight on the back of upbeat consumer confidence data and solid earnings from corporate giants Nike and FedEx.
The Japanese yen firmed towards its recent four-month peak against the dollar while Treasuries were little changed, and gold held steady ahead of the latest weekly U.S. jobless claim numbers and the U.S. GDP data for the third quarter due out later in the day.
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