US futures climb as Wall Street keeps an eye on Nvidia, Microsoft and producer prices

HONG KONG (AP) — Shares were mostly lower Friday in Europe and Asia, but losses remained modest as investors assessed how Jensen Huang’s resignation as Nvidia CEO might affect the global artificial intelligence industry.

A global outage for Microsoft web services disrupted email accounts and some other applications worldwide but appeared to have scant direct impact on markets.

Microsoft said in an update Friday that the outage was affecting a wide range of Microsoft 365 offerings that interact with its Exchange Online and email services. Services including Outlook, Teams and AI assistant Copilot were reported by users...