singapore stocks across asiapacific were set to jump after wall street rallied on optimism that the omicron variant risk might not be as bad as feared japans nikkei futures contract in chicago was at 28090 while its counterpart in osaka was at 28100 that compared against the nikkei 225s last close at 2792737 over in australia the spasx 200 jumped 076 in early trade white house chief medical advisor dr anthony fauci had said that the initial data on the omicron variant was encouraging though he cautioned that more information was needed to fully understand it stocks on wall street jumped on that optimism with the dow jones industrial average soaring nearly 650 points erasing its losses from the previous week the nasdaq composite climbed out of negative territory and ended 09 higher to 1522515 the sp 500 rose 11 to 459167 over in asiapacific economic data ahead include the release of australias rate decision in the morning