{"id":290523,"date":"2025-10-09T23:56:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T23:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/290523\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T23:56:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T23:56:11","slug":"asia-pacific-markets-nikkei-225-kospi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/290523\/","title":{"rendered":"Asia-Pacific markets: Nikkei 225, Kospi"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sunset scene of light trails traffic speeds through an intersection in Gangnam center business district of Seoul at Seoul city, South Korea<\/p>\n

Mongkol Chuewong | Moment | Getty Images<\/p>\n

Asia-Pacific markets were set to open lower Friday, tracking Wall Street declines as investors assess the state of the economy.<\/p>\n

Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225<\/a> index was set for a lower open, with its futures contract in Chicago trading at 48,705, and its counterpart in Osaka at 48,520, against the index’s last close of 48,580.44.<\/p>\n

Australia’s ASX\/S&P 200 lost 0.26%.<\/p>\n

Futures for Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index<\/a> pointed to a lower open, trading at 26,354, against the index’s previous close of 26,752.59.<\/p>\n

Overnight, the three major averages declined. The\u00a0S&P 500<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Nasdaq Composite<\/a>\u00a0pulled back from fresh all-time intraday highs on Thursday, with both indexes taking a breather from their gains in the previous session as the U.S. government shutdown continues.<\/p>\n

The broad market index dropped 0.28% to close at 6,735.11, while the tech-heavy index slid 0.08% to finish at 23,024.63. The\u00a0Dow Jones Industrial Average<\/a>, meanwhile, declined 243.36 points, or 0.52%, to close at 46,358.42.<\/p>\n

\u2014 CNBC’s Alex Harring and Sean Conlon contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sunset scene of light trails traffic speeds through an intersection in Gangnam center business district of Seoul at…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":181195,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[8000,133,64,81,960,170,135,15242,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-290523","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-chicago","13":"tag-japan","14":"tag-markets","15":"tag-osaka","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115346917638482241","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290523","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=290523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}