Asia-Pacific markets set to open mixed after Wall Street gains as tech extends rebound

Asia-Pacific markets were acceptable to unfastened mixed Thursday, aft Wall Street gained arsenic Fed rate-cut hopes grew and tech stocks rebounded.

Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 scale was acceptable for a higher open, with its futures declaration successful Chicago trading astatine 50,155, and its counterpart successful Osaka astatine 50,120, against the index's Wednesday adjacent of 49,559.07.

Australia's ASX/S&P 200 roseate 0.24%.

Futures for Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index pointed to a level open, trading astatine 25,924, against the index's erstwhile adjacent of 25,928.08.

Investors volition beryllium watching for South Korea's involvement complaint determination aboriginal — expected to stay unchanged astatine 2.5% according to a Reuters canvass — and for China's concern profits for the archetypal 10 months of the year.

Overnight, the cardinal indexes successful the U.S. logged 4 consecutive days of gains connected rising hopes for a Federal Reserve involvement complaint chopped successful December. Investors spot an 85% accidental of a quarter-percentage-point complaint chopped successful December, up from 30% past week, according to the CME FedWatch tool.

Shares of artificial quality subordinate Oracle jumped much than 4% connected Wednesday, boosting large averages aft Deutsche Bank reaffirmed its bullish stance on the name.

On Wednesday stateside, the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 314.67 points, oregon 0.67%, to decorativeness astatine 47,427.12. The S&P 500 climbed 0.69% to settee astatine 6,812.61, portion the Nasdaq Composite increased 0.82% to adjacent astatine 23,214.69.

— CNBC's Sean Conlon and Pia Singh contributed to this report.