On August 6, 2020, a Japanese flag flew near a container on the Odaiba waterfront in Tokyo.
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Asia-Pacific stocks broadly opened higher on Tuesday following gains on Wall Street Dow Jones Industrial Average The company’s record closing price comes amid a strong start to earnings season.
Asian investors will evaluate trade data Data from Japan and employment data from Australia in the morning.
Japanese Nikkei 225 Index fell 0.5%, while the broad-based Topix index was little changed.
Japan’s exports fell 1.7% in September compared with the same period last year, surprising economists polled by Reuters who had expected growth of 0.5%. This is the first time this year that exports have shrunk, and it has fallen sharply from the revised 5.5% growth rate in August.
Import growth in September was 2.1%, also lower than economists’ expectations of 3.2%. The figure was lower than August’s 2.3% growth rate.
Australian S&P/ASX 200 Index It was up 0.8% in early trading.
Australia’s unemployment rate in September was 4.1%, slightly lower than expected in a Reuters survey, which expected the unemployment rate to be unchanged from August’s 4.2%.
Australia’s labor force participation rate rose slightly to 67.2% in September, 0.1 percentage point higher than August and expected.
South Korea’s Kospi rose 0.1%, while the small-cap Kosdaq fell 0.1%.
Hongkong Hang Seng Index Opening up 1.9% following a number of factors Policy announcement The company’s chief executive spoke on Wednesday.
Mainland China’s CSI 300 Index opened up 0.7% The Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development held a status briefing meeting Regarding efforts to support the real estate industry.
British Semiconductor Earnings are scheduled to be released later Thursday. TSMC performance to be in focus after Dutch semiconductor equipment maker ASML’s poor sales forecast Pushing down global chip inventories.
The U.S. Dow Jones Index rose 337.28 points, or 0.79%, to close at 43,077.70 points overnight.
this S&P 500 Index increased 0.47% to 5,842.47, while Nasdaq Index It rose 0.28% to close at 18,367.08.
—CNBC’s Lisa Kailai Han and Jesse Pound contributed to this report.
