Asian markets were mixed on Wednesday, with South Korea's Kospi up 3.4% at midday to 5,733.82 and Japan's Nikkei 225 up 1.3% to 64,915.59, while Hong Kong's Hang Seng and the Shanghai Composite slipped. The moves followed a broad Wall Street rally on strong earnings, with Equifax up 11.3%, Hasbro up 11.2% and 3M up 5.8%, while General Motors fell 6.8% despite a bigger profit. Salesforce agreed to buy Braze for $47.50 in cash per share, sending its shares up 51.7%. Brent crude rose to $110.37 a barrel, near its highest level since the Iran war began, and Japan's exports rose 16.7% in September while imports jumped 18.9% on higher oil prices.
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