{"id":36651,"date":"2025-07-04T00:18:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T00:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/36651\/"},"modified":"2025-07-04T00:18:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T00:18:13","slug":"asia-stock-markets-today-live-updates-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/36651\/","title":{"rendered":"Asia stock markets today: live updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The skyline of Yokohama with the Landmark Tower, Queen&#8217;s Square and the ferries wheel with the Aka-Rengo Soko warehouse on a beautiful day.<\/p>\n<p>Juergen Sack | E+ | Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Most Asia-Pacific markets are set to climb on Friday, trailing gains on Wall Street after a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/07\/03\/jobs-report-june-2025.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">better-than-expected jobs report<\/a> eased investors&#8217; concerns of a slowdown in the U.S. economy.<\/p>\n<p>Japan&#8217;s benchmark <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/.N225\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nikkei 225<\/a> was set to open higher, with the futures contract in Chicago at 40,095 while its counterpart in Osaka last traded at 40,120, against the index&#8217;s Thursday close of 39,785.90.<\/p>\n<p>Futures for Hong Kong&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/.HSI\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hang Seng index<\/a> stood at 23,991, pointing to a lower open compared to the HSI&#8217;s last close of 24,069.94.<\/p>\n<p>Australia&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/.AXJO\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">S&amp;P\/ASX 200<\/a> is slated to open higher with futures tied to the benchmark at 8,611 compared to its last close of 8,595.80.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CNBC&#8217;s Sean Conlon and Lisa Kailai Han contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The skyline of Yokohama with the Landmark Tower, Queen&#8217;s Square and the ferries wheel with the Aka-Rengo Soko&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":36652,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[8000,4740,7992,7998,133,64,81,144,3748,8001,7994,3348,7995,135,143,7997,147,6769,145,7996,6043,7991,67,132,68,7993,7999,137],"class_list":{"0":"post-36651","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-markets","8":"tag-asia-economy","9":"tag-australia","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-dow-jones-industrial-average","16":"tag-dxy-us-dollar-currency-index","17":"tag-economic-events","18":"tag-hang-seng-index","19":"tag-ice-brent-crude-apr23","20":"tag-kospi-index","21":"tag-markets","22":"tag-nasdaq-composite","23":"tag-nikkei-225-index","24":"tag-nvidia-corp","25":"tag-prices","26":"tag-sp-500-index","27":"tag-sp-asx-200","28":"tag-shanghai","29":"tag-shenzhen-component-index","30":"tag-united-states","31":"tag-unitedstates","32":"tag-us","33":"tag-usd-jpy","34":"tag-world-markets","35":"tag-wti-crude-mar23"},"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\/36651","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=36651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}