Elizabeth Quay in Perth City<\/p>\n
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Asia-Pacific markets mostly rose investors assessed the Shanghai Cooperation Organization meeting of leaders in Tianjin, with tariff uncertainty weighing on sentiment.<\/p>\n
This comes after a U.S. federal appeals court on Friday ruled that most of President Donald Trump’s global tariffs are illegal.<\/p>\n
Japan’s Nikkei 225<\/a>\u00a0rose 0.31%, while the broader Topix index added 0.28%.<\/p>\n Over in South Korea, the\u00a0Kospi<\/a>\u00a0index increased by 0.45%, while the small-cap Kosdaq moved up 0.14%. The country’s consumer price index rose 1.7% in August from the year before, after increasing by 2.1% the month before. This marks its slowest year-on-year rise since November and is marginally weaker than the 2% rise forecast by economists in a Reuters poll.<\/p>\n Australia’s\u00a0S&P\/ASX 200<\/a>\u00a0was down 0.41%.The country’s current account balance for the April to June quarter is expected later in the day. Economists polled by Reuters expect a deficit of 16 billion Australian dollars ($10.49 billion), compared to the AU$14.7 billion deficit the quarter before.<\/p>\n Futures for Hong Kong’s\u00a0Hang Seng index<\/a>\u00a0stood at 25,463, pointing to a weaker open compared with the HSI’s last close of 25,617.42.<\/p>\n