The Seoul skyline.<\/p>\n
Mongkol Chuewong | Moment | Getty Images<\/p>\n
Asia-Pacific markets traded mixed on Friday, breaking ranks from Wall Street gains as investors also assess a slate of economic data in the region.<\/p>\n
Japan’s Nikkei 225<\/a>\u00a0slid 0.31%, 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> rose 0.31% while the Kosdaq Index climbed 0.76%.<\/p>\n Australia’s\u00a0S&P\/ASX 200<\/a> inched 0.11% higher.<\/p>\n Futures for Hong Kong’s\u00a0Hang Seng index<\/a>\u00a0stood at 25,104, pointing to a higher open compared to the HSI’s last close of 24,998.82.<\/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 on Friday, breaking ranks…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":183468,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[133,64,81,960,170,7995,135,15242,15243,10855,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-183467","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-markets","8":"tag-breaking-news-markets","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-business-news","11":"tag-chicago","12":"tag-japan","13":"tag-kospi-index","14":"tag-markets","15":"tag-osaka","16":"tag-south-korea","17":"tag-tokyo","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115109301808392907","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}