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 traded mixed Friday as reports of an Israeli military strike on Iran kept investors jittery after Wall Street gained on solid U.S. economic data.<\/p>\n
Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225<\/a> fell 1.28% while the Topix lost 1.22%. South Korea’s Kospi was 0.83% lower and the small-cap Kosdaq declined 1.82%.<\/p>\n Australia’s S&P\/ASX 200<\/a> traded flat.<\/p>\n Futures for Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index<\/a> last traded at 24,178, compared with the HSI’s last close of 24,035.38.<\/p>\n U.S. stock futures<\/a> ticked lower but major stock benchmarks were on course to end the week on a positive note. U.S. producer prices in May rose just 0.1% from the previous month, coming in cooler than the 0.2% jump expected by economists surveyed by Dow Jones. The softer reading helped boost major stock indexes, while bond yields declined, improving investor sentiment. This followed a cooler-than-expected consumer inflation report earlier in the week.<\/p>\n Overnight stateside<\/a>, all three key benchmarks closed higher. The\u00a0S&P 500<\/a>\u00a0rose, helped by a rally in\u00a0Oracle<\/a> that lifted the big tech sector. The benchmark climbed 0.38% to close at 6,045.26. The broad market S&P 500 now sits less than 2% off its record high. The\u00a0Nasdaq Composite<\/a>\u00a0gained 0.24% and ended the day at 19,662.48. The\u00a0Dow Jones Industrial Average<\/a>\u00a0added 101.85 points, or 0.24%, settling at 42,967.62.<\/p>\n \u2014 CNBC’s Lisa Kailai Han, Pia Singh, Sean Conlon contributed to this report.<\/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":179771,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3091],"tags":[15193,5464,4959,51,3085,2306,1395,32,1700,14009,2122,2441,21349,15695,14966,525,731,16,15,49],"class_list":{"0":"post-179770","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-markets","8":"tag-asia-economy","9":"tag-breaking-news-economy","10":"tag-breaking-news-markets","11":"tag-business","12":"tag-business-news","13":"tag-chicago","14":"tag-china","15":"tag-donald-trump","16":"tag-economy","17":"tag-howard-lutnick","18":"tag-japan","19":"tag-markets","20":"tag-nikkei-225-index","21":"tag-osaka","22":"tag-philippines","23":"tag-south-korea","24":"tag-thailand","25":"tag-uk","26":"tag-united-kingdom","27":"tag-united-states"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114673330593161066","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}