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Asia-Pacific markets were acceptable to commercialized mixed Thursday arsenic investors awaited a argumentation determination from the Bank of Korea.
South Korea's cardinal slope is expected to clasp its benchmark involvement complaint astatine 2.50%, arsenic the caller descent successful the won has narrowed country for argumentation easing, according to economists polled by Reuters.
In Japan, futures pointed to a little unfastened aft the Nikkei 225 deed different grounds precocious connected Wednesday. The futures declaration successful Chicago stood astatine 54,110 and its counterpart successful Osaka astatine 54,060, compared to the erstwhile adjacent of 54,341.23.
Hong Kong's Hang Seng index futures were astatine 26,901, signaling a somewhat weaker unfastened from the anterior adjacent of 26,999.81.
Australia's S&P/ASX 200 roseate 0.26%.
The Japanese yen strengthened marginally to 158.34 against the dollar. Markets are watching for imaginable involution by Japanese authorities aft the currency slid to an 18-month debased earlier this week
Overnight successful the U.S., stocks fell for a 2nd session, pulling backmost further from grounds levels, arsenic traders digested a caller batch of net and monitored geopolitical developments.
The S&P 500 dropped 0.53% and closed astatine 6,926.60. The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 42.36 points, oregon 0.09%, and ended astatine 49,149.63. The Nasdaq Composite shed 1%, settling astatine 23,471.75. It was the 2nd consecutive time of losses for each 3 indexes.
Tech bogged down the broader market. Chip stocks successful peculiar suffered losses, as Broadcom fell 4% and Nvidia and Micron Technology slid much than 1% each. On Wednesday, Reuters, citing radical briefed connected the matter, reported that Chinese customs authorities have advised customs agents that Nvidia's H200 chips are not permitted to participate the country.
— CNBC's Sean Conlon and Pia Singh contributed to this report.
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