Beijing Central Business District, mix of offices and apartments<\/p>\n
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Asia-Pacific markets opened higher Monday as investors awaited a slew of economic data coming out of China.<\/p>\n
Analysts polled by Reuters expect China’s economy to have slowed in the third quarter, forecasting gross domestic product to have grown 4.8% in the July-to-September period from a year ago, easing from 5.2% in the previous quarter<\/a>.<\/p>\n Japan’s Nikkei 225<\/a> rose 1.6%, while the Topix added 1.43% at the open. <\/p>\n South Korea’s Kospi added 0.36% after hitting a record high for the third straight day last Friday, while the small-cap Kosdaq climbed 1.13%.<\/p>\n Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index<\/a> futures were at 25,863, higher than the HSI’s Friday close of 25,247.1.<\/p>\n Australia’s\u00a0S&P\/ASX 200<\/a> started the day 0.1% lower.<\/p>\n Last Friday in the U.S., the three major averages closed higher.<\/p>\n The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose Friday as traders digested the U.S.\u2032 softening tone on its trade talks with China and tried to move past credit concerns that sparked a big sell-off in regional banks Thursday stateside.<\/p>\n The\u00a0Dow<\/a>\u00a0finished 238.37 points, or 0.52%, higher at 46,190.61. The\u00a0S&P 500<\/a>\u00a0settled up 0.53% at 6,664.01, while the\u00a0Nasdaq Composite<\/a>\u00a0added 0.52% to finish at 22,679.98.<\/p>\n \u2014 CNBC’s Liz Napolitano and Pia Singh contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Beijing Central Business District, mix of offices and apartments Ispyfriend | E+ | Getty Images Asia-Pacific markets opened…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91541,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[986,72,122,2193,114,3389,8176,61,60,582,123,8493,5922,541,115],"class_list":["post-91540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-markets","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-business-news","tag-chicago","tag-china","tag-economic-events","tag-hang-seng-index","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-japan","tag-markets","tag-nikkei-225-index","tag-osaka","tag-south-korea","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}