Bombay Gate Gateway of India, Mumbai<\/p>\n
Arutthaphon Poolsawasd | Moment | Getty Images<\/p>\n
Asia-Pacific markets mostly fell on Wednesday after Wall Street gained overnight.<\/p>\n
India’s markets will also be in focus as the U.S. tariffs take effect. The country currently faces additional tariffs of up to 50% on exports to the U.S., after the Trump administration escalated tariff threats in response to its substantial imports of Russian energy.<\/p>\n
Japan’s Nikkei 225<\/a>\u00a0slipped 0.17%, and the Topix lost 0.3%. South Korea’s Kospi<\/a> declined 0.17% and the small-cap Kosdaq lost 0.16%.<\/p>\n Australia’s\u00a0S&P\/ASX 200<\/a> added 0.23%.<\/p>\n Futures for Hong Kong’s\u00a0Hang Seng index<\/a>\u00a0stood at 25,626, pointing to a higher open compared to the HSI’s last close of 25,524.92.<\/p>\n Overnight stateside, the three major benchmarks ended the trading day higher. The\u00a0S&P 500<\/a>\u00a0closed higher as Wall Street looked beyond President Donald Trump’s\u00a0removal of Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook<\/a>\u00a0from the central bank’s board and awaited quarterly figures from chip giant\u00a0Nvidia<\/a>.<\/p>\n The broad market S&P 500 settled up 0.41% at 6,465.94. The tech-heavy\u00a0Nasdaq Composite<\/a>\u00a0also added 0.44% to end the day at 21,544.27. The blue-chip\u00a0Dow Jones Industrial Average<\/a>\u00a0added 135.60 points, or 0.30%, to finish at 45,418.07.<\/p>\n \u2014 CNBC’s Sean Conlon, Sarah Min and Christina Cheddar Berk contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bombay Gate Gateway of India, Mumbai Arutthaphon Poolsawasd | Moment | Getty Images Asia-Pacific markets mostly fell on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99633,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[6826,1386,45,161,49,48,6681,1376,46,1799,2454,12919,100,9691,772],"class_list":["post-99632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-markets","tag-breaking-news-economy","tag-breaking-news-markets","tag-business","tag-business-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-chicago","tag-donald-trump","tag-economy","tag-india","tag-japan","tag-kospi-index","tag-markets","tag-osaka","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}