Wire reporting: (Reuters, via CNA)

Asian stock indexes were mixed to lower on Thursday after Alphabet Inc. fell in U.S. after-hours trading on a quarterly miss, pulling Nasdaq futures lower, CNA reported in a Reuters wrap and CNBC said in live market coverage^1,3.

CNA, carrying Reuters, said Alphabet shares were about 10% lower after hours, with the move described as wiping nearly $400 billion off market value, and Nasdaq futures down 1%¹. CNBC said Nasdaq-100 futures lost 1.2% and S&P 500 futures 0.5%, and put Alphabet's after-hours decline at about 9%³.

CNBC said Alphabet missed third-quarter adjusted earnings per share and revenue and reported negative free cash flow of $9.07 billion, while keeping full-year capital expenditure guidance at $195 billion to $205 billion³. CNA's Reuters copy attributed the drop to cash burn and said advertising, Alphabet's traditional revenue line, was under pressure even as AI-related cloud and data-center growth remained a focus¹.

Microsoft Corp. rose about 3% after hours, both accounts said, after results that beat forecasts^1,3. CNBC said Azure cloud infrastructure growth helped Microsoft beat on sales and profit for its fiscal first quarter, citing LSEG³.

In Asia, CNA said MSCI's Asia-Pacific index excluding Japan fell 0.7%, Japan's Nikkei was up 0.3%, mainland China blue chips were down 0.9%, and Hong Kong's Hang Seng was up 0.2%¹. CNBC put the Nikkei up more than 0.49%, the Kospi down 2.44%, Australia's S&P/ASX 200 up 0.34%, the Hang Seng up 0.24%, and China's CSI 300 down 0.64%³.

Samsung Electronics reported a record third-quarter operating profit that CNA said rose nearly ninefold on AI-chip demand, yet its shares fell more than 4% and the Kospi dropped 2.6% after a nearly 7% surge a day earlier¹. CNBC did not detail Samsung's profit but also reported a Kospi decline of about 2.4%³.

The Federal Reserve held its benchmark rate in a 3.75% to 4% range on Wednesday, CNBC said, after a widely expected decision³. CNA's Reuters copy said two committee members voted for a hike and that Chair Kevin Warsh's comments on inflation helped Treasuries rally¹. CNBC said the statement called inflation elevated and that officials wanted more information before further steps³.

CNA said Amazon and Intel results were due later Thursday and that markets were about 80% priced for a December rate increase despite Warsh's remarks¹. CNBC said Personal Consumption Expenditures data for September were due Thursday³. Reuters' own page could not be read in this filing; facts attributed to Reuters come from the CNA wire copy^1,2.