TOKYO, JAPAN - JULY 27: Pedestrians and shoppers locomotion done the Akihabara country connected July 27, 2023 successful Tokyo, Japan. Japan's halfway user terms scale climbed by 3.3% successful June, outpacing the US fig for the archetypal clip successful 8 years arsenic the Bank of Japan holds its monetary argumentation gathering connected July 27 and 28. (Photo by Tomohiro Ohsumi/Getty Images)
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Asia-Pacific markets were acceptable to unfastened mostly higher Thursday, tracking gains connected Wall Street arsenic traders stake that the U.S. authorities shutdown would beryllium short-lived.
The shutdown is expected to past astatine slightest 3 days with the Senate acceptable to beryllium retired of league Thursday stateside owed to Yom Kippur, but traders are betting that the shutdown could resistance on for astir 2 weeks.
Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 scale was acceptable for a higher open, with its futures declaration successful Chicago astatine 44,995, and its counterpart successful Osaka past trading astatine 44,890, against the index's Wednesday adjacent of 44,550.85.
Australia's ASX/S&P 200 was poised for a higher open, with its futures declaration trading astatine 8,932, against the index's Wednesday adjacent of 8,845.7.
Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index was acceptable to unfastened lower, with its futures declaration past trading astatine 26,840, against the index's erstwhile adjacent of 26,855.56.
Chinese and Indian markets were closed for holidays.
South Korea's user terms scale climbed 2.1% twelvemonth connected twelvemonth successful September, much than the 2% emergence expected by economists successful a Reuters poll. The latest speechmaking compares with the 1.7% maturation successful August.
U.S. equity futures were small changed successful aboriginal Asian hours aft the S&P 500 recorded a caller precocious Wednesday stateside.
Overnight, the wide marketplace scale gained 0.34% to adjacent astatine 6,711.20. Earlier, it had deed a caller all-time intraday high. The Nasdaq Composite roseate 0.42% to settee astatine 22,755.16, portion the Dow Jones Industrial Average traded up 43.21 points, oregon 0.09%, to decorativeness astatine 46,441.10.
— CNBC's Pia Singh and Sean Conlon contributed to this report.
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