\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":128817,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[5754,6703,5745,5753,4117,84,273,17069,42875,4126,5747,5748,814,5749,467,4127,55441,5751,30611,4125,5750,5752,56,54,55,5746,6147,4953],"class_list":["post-128816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-markets","tag-asia-economy","tag-asia-news","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-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-usd-jpy","tag-world-economy","tag-world-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}