Mount Fuji and buildings in the Shinjuku district are reflected on a table at an observation deck in Tokyo, Japan, on December 24, 2013.<\/p>\n
Kiyoshi Ota | Bloomberg | Getty Images<\/p>\n
Asia-Pacific markets were set to open mixed Friday after U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday formalizing a lower Japanese auto import tariff of 15%, down from 27.5%.<\/p>\n
The order also confirms the agreement for $550 billion of Japanese investments<\/a> in U.S. projects.<\/p>\n Japan’s Nikkei 225<\/a> was set to open higher, with the futures contract in Chicago at 42,945, while its counterpart in Osaka last traded at 42,910, against the index’s last close of 42,580. 27.<\/p>\n Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index<\/a> was on course to open lower, with the futures contract at 25,021, compared with its Thursday close at 25,058.51.<\/p>\n Australia’s S&P\/ASX 200<\/a> was set to open higher, with the futures contract at 8,866 against the index’s last close at 8,826.5.<\/p>\n Malaysian and Indonesian markets were closed for a holiday.<\/p>\n U.S. equity futures were little changed ahead of the August jobs report due out Friday stateside.<\/p>\n Overnight stateside, all three key benchmarks rose on hopes of a favorable jobs report that supports a Federal Reserve rate cut chance.<\/p>\n The broad market S&P 500 finished up 0.83% at 6,502.08, while the\u00a0Nasdaq Composite<\/a>\u00a0settled up 0.98% at 21,707.69. The\u00a0Dow Jones Industrial Average<\/a>\u00a0finished up 350.06 points, or 0.77%, at 45,621.29. It was S&P 500\u2032s 21st record close so far this year.<\/p>\n \u2014 CNBC’s Sean Conlon and Sarah Min contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mount Fuji and buildings in the Shinjuku district are reflected on a table at an observation deck in…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":200876,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[8000,6466,7992,7998,133,64,81,11764,8708,144,3748,7994,267,7995,135,143,111149,7997,145,7996,6043,67,132,68,7993,27231,7999],"class_list":{"0":"post-200875","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-hang-seng-index","20":"tag-interest-rates","21":"tag-kospi-index","22":"tag-markets","23":"tag-nasdaq-composite","24":"tag-nikkei-225","25":"tag-nikkei-225-index","26":"tag-sp-500-index","27":"tag-sp-asx-200","28":"tag-shanghai","29":"tag-united-states","30":"tag-unitedstates","31":"tag-us","32":"tag-usd-jpy","33":"tag-world-economy","34":"tag-world-markets"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200875","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=200875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}