{"id":64469,"date":"2025-09-15T00:32:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T00:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/64469\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T00:32:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T00:32:08","slug":"asia-markets-open-mixed-as-investors-watch-u-s-china-talks-in-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/64469\/","title":{"rendered":"Asia markets open mixed as investors watch U.S.-China talks in Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shanghai urban skyline and the bund, China.<\/p>\n

Comezora | Moment | Getty Images<\/p>\n

Asia-Pacific markets opened mixed as investors kept an eye on the talks between the U.S. and China in Spain, and awaited a slate of data from Beijing.<\/p>\n

U.S. and Chinese officials began talks in Madrid Sunday to discuss<\/a> key national security, economic, and trade issues, including the upcoming deadline to divest Chinese short video app TikTok and U.S. tariffs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Delegations led by U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer met with their counterparts, Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng and China’s top trade negotiator, Li Chenggang.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, China is expected to release data on retail sales, fixed asset investment and urban unemployment rate later in the day.<\/p>\n

Australia’s ASX\/S&P 200 fell 0.75% at the open.<\/p>\n

South Korea’s Kospi index rose 0.67% to a record high of 3,420.23, marking its 10th straight session of gains. The small-cap Kosdaq increased 0.4%.<\/p>\n

Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index<\/a> was set to open slightly lower, with the futures contract at 26,380, against the index’s last close of 26,388.16.<\/p>\n

Japanese and Malaysian markets were closed for a holiday.<\/p>\n

U.S. equity futures were little changed in early Asian hours as investors brace for a Federal Reserve meeting this week, in hopes that the central bank will cut interest rates when it concludes its meeting Wednesday stateside.<\/p>\n

On Friday stateside, the Nasdaq Composite closed at a fresh record high, securing its second winning week in a row with its 2% advance in the period. The S&P 500 gained 1.6% week to date, posting its best weekly performance since early August. The Dow posted its first\u00a0positive week in three after seeing a week-to-date climb of 1%.<\/p>\n

The strong gains come after the latest economic data showing a weakening labor market and tame inflation spurred Fed rate-cut hopes.<\/p>\n

\u2014 CNBC’s Sarah Min contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shanghai urban skyline and the bund, China. Comezora | Moment | Getty Images Asia-Pacific markets opened mixed as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[4055,5402,4047,4053,491,79,207,12388,14717,193,4049,18,4050,19,5389,17,4051,188,192,33257,4052,190,1663,2792,4048,6613,4054],"class_list":{"0":"post-64469","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-markets","8":"tag-asia-economy","9":"tag-asia-news","10":"tag-australian-dollar-us-dollar-fx-spot-rate","11":"tag-breaking-news-asia","12":"tag-breaking-news-markets","13":"tag-business","14":"tag-business-news","15":"tag-central-banking","16":"tag-currency-markets","17":"tag-dow-jones-industrial-average","18":"tag-dxy-us-dollar-currency-index","19":"tag-eire","20":"tag-hang-seng-index","21":"tag-ie","22":"tag-interest-rates","23":"tag-ireland","24":"tag-kospi-index","25":"tag-markets","26":"tag-nasdaq-composite","27":"tag-nikkei-225","28":"tag-nikkei-225-index","29":"tag-sp-500-index","30":"tag-sp-asx-200","31":"tag-shanghai","32":"tag-usd-jpy","33":"tag-world-economy","34":"tag-world-markets"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}