Ulsan city skyline from the Hamwolru Pavilion. People can enjoy beautiful cityscape for free. Ulsan, South Korea.<\/p>\n
Insung Jeon | Moment | Getty Images<\/p>\n
Asia-Pacific markets on Tuesday tracked Wall Street declines overnight ahead of the U.S. Federal Reserve meeting later this week.<\/p>\n
Investors also assessed the talks between U.S. President\u00a0Donald Trump<\/a>, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy<\/a> and European leaders at the White House, aimed at stopping the Moscow-Kyiv conflict.<\/p>\n Japan’s Nikkei 225<\/a>\u00a0benchmark ticked down 0.11% in choppy trade, after closing at a record high in its previous session, while the broader Topix index was flat.<\/p>\n Investment firm SoftBank Group<\/a>‘s shares snapped its nine-day winning streak, plunging as much as 5.69%, after it announced a $2 billion investment in Intel<\/a>. As part of the deal, SoftBank will pay $23 per share for Intel’s common stock<\/a>, which closed at $23.66 on Monday.<\/p>\n In South Korea, the\u00a0Kospi<\/a>\u00a0index fell 0.31% while the small-cap Kosdaq declined by 0.67%.<\/p>\n Mainland China’s\u00a0CSI 300<\/a>\u00a0was flat in early trade, after closing at its highest level since October 2024 in its previous session, while Hong Kong’s\u00a0Hang Seng Index<\/a>\u00a0edged down 0.12%.<\/p>\n Australia’s\u00a0S&P\/ASX 200<\/a>\u00a0dropped 0.74%.<\/p>\n U.S. equity futures<\/a> were little changed in early Asia hours, at the start of a week filled with retail earnings and speeches from Fed officials.<\/p>\n Overnight stateside, all three key benchmarks ended the day near the flatline.<\/p>\n The\u00a0Dow Jones Industrial Average<\/a>\u00a0dropped 34.30 points, or 0.08%, to close at 44,911.82. The\u00a0S&P 500<\/a>\u00a0closed down 0.01% and ended at 6,449.15, while the\u00a0Nasdaq Composite<\/a>\u00a0inched up 0.03% to settle at 21,629.77.<\/p>\n Shares of two of the so-called magnificent seven stocks\u00a0Meta Platforms<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Microsoft<\/a>\u00a0dropped about 2.3% and 0.6%, weighing on the broader market.<\/p>\n \u2014 CNBC’s Yun Li, Pia Singh and Alex Harring contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ulsan city skyline from the Hamwolru Pavilion. People can enjoy beautiful cityscape for free. Ulsan, South Korea. Insung…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[9073,64,63,1053,99,174,60251,5834,2490,18548,60250,171,9070,9069,48037,60249,55740],"class_list":["post-78989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-markets","tag-asia-economy","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-breaking-news-markets","tag-business","tag-business-news","tag-cyberagent-inc","tag-donald-j-trump","tag-donald-trump","tag-intel-corp","tag-isetan-mitsukoshi-holdings-ltd","tag-markets","tag-nikkei-225-index","tag-sp-asx-200","tag-softbank-group-corp","tag-suzuki-motor-corp","tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78989","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=78989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}