{"id":339898,"date":"2025-08-13T01:24:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T01:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/339898\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T01:24:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T01:24:14","slug":"nikkei-225-kospi-csi-300","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/339898\/","title":{"rendered":"Nikkei 225, Kospi, CSI 300"},"content":{"rendered":"

Asia-Pacific markets open in the green<\/p>\n

Asia-Pacific markets opened higher Wednesday. Japan’s Nikkei 225<\/a>\u00a0benchmark rose 1% after hitting a record high Tuesday, while the broader Topix index added 0.72%, as of 8:02 a.m. Singapore time (8:02 p.m. ET Tuesday).<\/p>\n

In South Korea, the Kospi<\/a> index advanced 1.07%, while the small-cap Kosdaq increased by 0.88%.<\/p>\n

Over in Australia, the S&P\/ASX 200 was up 0.29%.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Lee Ying Shan<\/p>\n

Here are the opening calls for the day<\/p>\n

Happy mid-week from Singapore. Asia markets are set for a mostly higher open.<\/p>\n

Japan’s Nikkei 225<\/a> was set to open higher, with the futures contract in Chicago at 43,325, while its counterpart in Osaka last traded at 43,280, against the index’s last close of 42,718.17.<\/p>\n

Futures for Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index<\/a> \u00a0stood at 25,144, pointing to a higher open compared with the HSI’s last close of 24,969.68.<\/p>\n

However, Australia’s S&P\/ASX 200<\/a> was set to start the day lower with futures tied to the benchmark at 8,852, compared with the index’s last close of 8,880.8.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Lee Ying Shan<\/p>\n

S&P 500 hits new intraday high<\/p>\n

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on August 11, 2025. <\/p>\n

NYSE<\/p>\n

The S&P 500<\/a> rose 0.8% on Tuesday to hit a new intraday high.<\/p>\n

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S&P 5D chart<\/p>\n

During the session, the S&P 500 surpassed its prior high from July 31. A closing high would be the S&P’s 16th of the year.<\/p>\n

Earlier in the morning, the Nasdaq Composite<\/a> also hit a new intraday high. A record close would be the benchmark’s 19th of the year.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Nick Wells, Lisa Kailai Han<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Asia-Pacific markets open in the green Asia-Pacific markets opened higher Wednesday. Japan’s Nikkei 225\u00a0benchmark rose 1% after hitting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339899,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3091],"tags":[15193,4959,51,3085,2441,16678,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-339898","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-markets","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-business-news","12":"tag-markets","13":"tag-prices","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115018849689945386","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339898","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=339898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}