China markets fall at the open<\/p>\n
Mainland China and Hong Kong stocks opened lower, as the Asia-Pacific region was mostly in the red.<\/p>\n
Mainland China’s\u00a0CSI 300<\/a>\u00a0was down 0.16%, while Hong Kong’s\u00a0Hang Seng Index<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 which includes major Chinese companies \u2014 lost 0.53%.<\/p>\n The Hang Seng Tech Index, which tracks the largest technology companies listed in Hong Kong, fell 1.07%.<\/p>\n \u2014Lee Ying Shan<\/p>\n Tokyo inflation comes in lower than expected<\/p>\n Inflation in Japan’s capital of Tokyo<\/a> came in at 2.9% for July, softening from the 3.1% seen in June.<\/p>\n Core inflation, which strips out prices of volatile fresh food, also fell to 2.9% in July from 3.1% in the previous month. The latest reading was lower than the 3% expected by a Reuters poll of economists.<\/p>\n Tokyo’s inflation figures are widely considered to be a leading indicator of nationwide trends.<\/p>\n \u2014 Lim Hui Jie<\/p>\n Asia markets start Friday trading in the red<\/p>\n Asia markets started the trading day lower.<\/p>\n Japan’s benchmark\u00a0Nikkei 225<\/a>\u00a0fell 0.24%, while the Topix lost 0.55%. <\/p>\n South Korea’s Kospi<\/a> was flat and the small-cap Kosdaq slipped 0.48%.<\/p>\n Australia’s\u00a0S&P\/ASX 200<\/a> lost 0.41%.<\/p>\n \u2014Lee Ying Shan<\/p>\n Asia markets set to open lower<\/p>\n Good morning from Singapore. Asia markets were set for a muted open Friday.<\/p>\n Japan’s benchmark\u00a0Nikkei 225<\/a>\u00a0was set to start the trading day lower, with the futures contract in Chicago at 41,740 and its counterpart in Osaka at 41,640, against the index’s last close at 41,826.34.<\/p>\n Futures for Hong Kong’s\u00a0Hang Seng index<\/a>\u00a0stood at 25,505, pointing to a weaker open compared with the HSI’s last close of 25,667.18.<\/p>\n