Global shares mostly higher after calm day on Wall St WSOC TV [Video]

TOKYO — (AP) — World shares were mostly higher on Wednesday after U.S. stocks held relatively steady on Wall Street.

Oil prices fell and the yen weakened further against the U.S. dollar.

Germany’s DAX rose 0.2% to 18,626.00 and the CAC 40 in Paris jumped 0.6% to 8,122.40. Britain’s FTSE 100 gained 0.4% to 8,347.77.

The futures for the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial average were nearly unchanged.

In Asian trading, Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 lost 1.6% to 38,202.37.

Nintendo Co.’s share price sank 5.4% after the company’s forecasts disappointed investors and it announced that news of a successor product to its popular Switch device will be made by March 2025.

Sony Corp. shed 5% amid speculation over a potential buyout of Paramount Global by Sony Pictures and the private equity firm Apollo Global Management.

Market players are watching to see how authorities react to the yen’s persisting weakness against the U.S. dollar.

The dollar rose to 155.35 Japanese yen …