Aerial view of Mt. Fuji, Tokyo Tower and modern skyscrapers in Tokyo on a sunny day.<\/p>\n
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Asia-Pacific markets rose Friday as investors look toward the Bank of Japan decision<\/a> coming out later in the day.<\/p>\n The decision could see rates raised to 0.75% \u2014 the highest since 1995 \u2014 with data from LSEG showing an 86.4% probability of a hike by the Bank of Japan. <\/p>\n A rate hike will likely strengthen the yen against the greenback and contain inflation, which has run above the BOJ’s target for 44 straight months.<\/p>\n Japan’s consumer inflation rate<\/a> dropped to 2.9% in November, government data showed Friday. Core inflation, which strips out prices of fresh food, remained unchanged from 3% in October, and came in line with Reuters-polled economists’ average estimate.<\/p>\n Australia’s\u00a0S&P\/ASX 200<\/a> climbed 0.52% in early trade.<\/p>\n Japan’s Nikkei 225<\/a> advanced 0.56%, while the Topix was 0.57% higher. South Korea’s Kospi jumped 0.68% and the small-cap Kosdaq added 0.53%.<\/p>\n Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index<\/a> futures were at 25,675, higher than the HSI’s last close of 25,498.13.<\/p>\n Overnight in the U.S., the\u00a0S&P 500<\/a>\u00a0snapped a four-day slide Thursday, boosted by lighter-than-expected inflation data that brightened the outlook for lower interest rates in 2026 and blowout guidance from chipmaker\u00a0Micron Technology<\/a>.<\/p>\n The broad market index jumped 0.79% to settle at 6,774.76, while the\u00a0Nasdaq Composite<\/a>\u00a0advanced 1.38% to 23,006.36. The\u00a0Dow Jones Industrial Average<\/a>\u00a0gained 65.88 points, or 0.14%, to end the day at 47,951.85.<\/p>\n \u2014 CNBC’s Lim Hui Jie, Sean Conlon and Pia Singh contributed to this story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aerial view of Mt. Fuji, Tokyo Tower and modern skyscrapers in Tokyo on a sunny day. Yongyuan |…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[972,933,941,357,54,184,3449,42,1437,190,10388,43,3197,40,38,41,39,1032,18413],"class_list":["post-192164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-australia","tag-breaking-news-economy","tag-breaking-news-markets","tag-business-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-economy","tag-hang-seng-index","tag-headlines","tag-japan","tag-markets","tag-micron-technology-inc","tag-news","tag-nikkei-225-index","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-united-states","tag-venezuela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}