\u00a0Asia-Pacific markets opened mixed Thursday after Wall Street continued to reach record highs over Fed-rate cut hopes and positive inflation data.<\/p>\n
Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225<\/a> rose 0.23% in early trade, while the Topix index retreated 0.18%.<\/p>\n South Korea’s Kospi<\/a> advanced 0.67%, and the small-cap Kosdaq was up 0.2%.<\/p>\n Over in Australia, the ASX\/S&P 200 declined 0.29%.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index<\/a> was set to open lower with the futures contract at 25,994, compared with the index’s last close at 26,200.26.<\/p>\n U.S. equity futures were little changed in early Asian hours, as Wall Street awaited a key consumer inflation gauge for August due out Thursday morning stateside.<\/p>\n Overnight stateside, most of the key U.S. benchmarks rose to hit new record closing highs after the latest producer price index data showed that inflation was cooling.<\/p>\n The broad market S&P 500<\/a> finished up 0.3% at 6,532.04, a record close for the index. It had risen about 0.7% at its peak to 6,555.97, scoring a new all-time intraday high as well. The\u00a0Nasdaq Composite<\/a>\u00a0edged up 0.03% to end at 21,886.06, likewise notching a closing high after hitting an all-time intraday high before its afternoon pullback. The\u00a0Dow Jones Industrial Average<\/a>\u00a0lost 220.42 points, or 0.48%, to finish at 45,490.92, bogged down by a decline in\u00a0Apple<\/a>\u00a0shares as the\u00a0latest iPhone announcement<\/a>\u00a0failed to impress investors.<\/p>\n \u2014 CNBC’s Sean Conlon and Lisa Kailai Han contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0Asia-Pacific markets opened mixed Thursday after Wall Street continued to reach record highs over Fed-rate cut hopes and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134055,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[9073,9974,64,63,9064,9071,1053,99,174,50426,65396,1062,9066,9067,5626,9068,171,1061,84459,9070,38110,1063,9069,4933,9065,17263,9072],"class_list":["post-134054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-markets","tag-asia-economy","tag-asia-news","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-dollar-us-dollar-fx-spot-rate","tag-breaking-news-asia","tag-breaking-news-markets","tag-business","tag-business-news","tag-central-banking","tag-currency-markets","tag-dow-jones-industrial-average","tag-dxy-us-dollar-currency-index","tag-hang-seng-index","tag-interest-rates","tag-kospi-index","tag-markets","tag-nasdaq-composite","tag-nikkei-225","tag-nikkei-225-index","tag-oracle-corp","tag-sp-500-index","tag-sp-asx-200","tag-shanghai","tag-usd-jpy","tag-world-economy","tag-world-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}