ADRs End Mostly Higher; ASML Rises

International stocks trading in New York closed mostly higher on Thursday.

ASML Holding NV (ASML, ASML.AE) was among the companies with ADRs that traded actively.

The BNY Mellon index of American depositary receipts edged up 0.6% to 119.03. The European index increased 0.8% to 116.57, the Asian index eased 0.02% to 128.28, the Latin American index rose 0.6% to 170.66 and the emerging-markets index edged up 0.05% to 224.14.

ASML agreed to buy Taiwan-based Hermes Microvision Inc. for about US$3.09 billion, the latest in a string of deals in the global semiconductor industry. ASML, based in Veldhoven, the Netherlands, is the world's largest manufacturer by sales of lithography systems, which are used to print circuit patterns on silicon wafers. Hermes Microvision specializes in making pattern verification systems for semiconductor devices. ADRs rose 1.5% to $95.57.

Write to Tess Stynes at tess.stynes@wsj.com

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June 16, 2016 17:39 ET (21:39 GMT)

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