The Seoul skyline.<\/p>\n
Mongkol Chuewong | Moment | Getty Images<\/p>\n
Asia-Pacific markets traded mixed Friday, breaking ranks with Wall Street as investors also assessed a slate of economic data in the region.<\/p>\n
Japan’s Nikkei 225<\/a>\u00a0slid 0.41%, while the Topix lost 0.39% after core consumer prices in Tokyo rose at a slower pace in August<\/a>. The Tokyo core CPI, which strips out fresh food but includes energy, climbed 2.5% from a year earlier, matching Reuters’ economists’ forecasts, and easing from July’s 2.9% increase. The figure, however, remained above the Bank of Japan’s 2% target.<\/p>\n Japan’s unemployment rate<\/a> also eased to 2.3% in July, down from 2.5% the previous month.<\/p>\n South Korea’s Kospi<\/a> lost 0.22% while the Kosdaq Index slipped 0.27% after South Korea’s ex-first lady Kim Keon Hee was reportedly indicted over corruption and bribery charges. Kim is the wife of former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, who was removed from office<\/a> and arrested earlier this year<\/a> for his short-lived declaration of martial law. The South Korean won weakened 0.15% to 1,387.38 against the dollar.<\/p>\n Australia’s\u00a0S&P\/ASX 200<\/a> fell 0.14%.<\/p>\n Hong Kong’s\u00a0Hang Seng index<\/a>\u00a0added 0.51% while mainland’s CSI 300 rose 0.13%.<\/p>\n India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi is due to meet China’s President Xi Jinping<\/a> for the 25th Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit over the weekend in Tianjin, which will be Modi’s first visit to China in seven years.<\/p>\n New Delhi and Beijing could engage in talks in Tianjin, as India’s foreign ministry has flagged the possibility of bilateral meetings on the sidelines of the summit.<\/p>\n Overnight stateside, the three major averages closed higher. The broad market\u00a0S&P 500<\/a> index finished 0.32% higher at 6,501.86 after hitting a new all-time intraday high above the 6,500 level. The\u00a0Nasdaq Composite<\/a>\u00a0ended the day up 0.53% at 21,705.16, while the\u00a0Dow Jones Industrial Average<\/a>\u00a0rose 71.67 points, or 0.16% to end at 45,636.90, which was also a record.<\/p>\n \u2014 CNBC’s Sean Conlon contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Seoul skyline. Mongkol Chuewong | Moment | Getty Images Asia-Pacific markets traded mixed Friday, breaking ranks with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117911,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[1246,116,28,122,157,144,1051,2344,3471,7174,112,5,6298,12662,1866,76200,17205,21,6132,71718],"class_list":["post-117910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-australia","tag-breaking-news-markets","tag-business","tag-business-news","tag-chicago","tag-china","tag-economic-events","tag-india","tag-japan","tag-kospi-index","tag-markets","tag-narendra-modi","tag-new-delhi","tag-osaka","tag-south-korea","tag-tianjin","tag-tokyo","tag-united-states","tag-xi-jinping","tag-yoon-suk-yeol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}