View of the Skytree from Ueno and Asakusa in Tokyo<\/p>\n
Jackal Pan | Moment | Getty Images<\/p>\n
Asia-Pacific shares mostly rose Thursday after U.S. President Donald Trump signed a funding bill into law, effectively ending the longest federal\u00a0government shutdown<\/a>\u00a0in U.S. history.<\/p>\n Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225<\/a> index rose 0.13%, while the Topix added 0.62% to hit a record high.<\/p>\n Shares of SoftBank Group continue to fall for a second consecutive day<\/a>, plunging more than 5%, after the Japanese giant said Tuesday it sold its entire $5.8 billion stake<\/a> in Nvidia in October, to fund its OpenAI bet.<\/p>\n South Korea’s Kospi was flat, while the small-cap Kosdaq climbed 0.79%.<\/p>\n Australia’s S&P\/ASX 200<\/a> fell 1.01% after the seasonally adjusted October unemployment rate eased to 4.3%, government jobs data showed<\/a> Thursday. The latest reading was better than the 4.4% figure expected by Reuters-polled economists and compared with 4.5% in September.<\/p>\n The better-than-expected decline in October lowers expectations for a rate cut. The Australian dollar rose to 0.6556 against the greenback.<\/p>\n Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index<\/a> fell 0.66%, while the mainland’s CSI 300 added 0.95%.<\/p>\n India’s Nifty 50 declined 0.12% in early trading.<\/p>\n U.S. equity futures ticked lower in early Asian hours after a continued market rotation powered the Dow Jones Industrial Average<\/a> to record its first close above 48,000 Wednesday stateside.<\/p>\n Overnight, the 30-stock Dow closed up 326.86 points, or 0.68%, at 48,254.82. The index also hit a fresh all-time intraday high in the session. The\u00a0S&P 500<\/a>\u00a0traded around the flatline, settling up 0.06% at 6,850.92, while the Nasdaq Composite<\/a> dropped 0.26% to finish at 23,406.46.<\/p>\n \u2014 CNBC’s Sean Conlon and Pia Singh contributed to this report.<\/p>\n Correction: This article was updated to accurately reflect the opening hours of South Korean markets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"View of the Skytree from Ueno and Asakusa in Tokyo Jackal Pan | Moment | Getty Images Asia-Pacific…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":375207,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8000,133,64,81,11764,8708,144,7994,267,135,143,7997,7996,67,132,68,27231,7999],"class_list":{"0":"post-375206","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-asia-economy","9":"tag-breaking-news-markets","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-business-news","12":"tag-central-banking","13":"tag-currency-markets","14":"tag-dow-jones-industrial-average","15":"tag-hang-seng-index","16":"tag-interest-rates","17":"tag-markets","18":"tag-nasdaq-composite","19":"tag-nikkei-225-index","20":"tag-sp-asx-200","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-world-economy","25":"tag-world-markets"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115540683228061909","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375206","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=375206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}