Asia markets set to open mixed after Wall Street gains on cooler-than-expected jobs data and rate-cut hopes

Asia-Pacific markets were acceptable to unfastened mixed Thursday, aft Wall Street gained connected the latest jobs information from ADP, which strengthened investors' condemnation that the Federal Reserve volition chopped involvement rates adjacent week.

Payroll processor ADP reported that backstage companies chopped 32,000 workers successful November, a crisp measurement down from October's summation of 47,000 positions, and good beneath the 40,000 summation expected by economists polled by Dow Jones.

The ADP study is the past jobs representation the Federal Reserve gets earlier it meets Dec. 9-10. Markets are pricing successful an 89% accidental of a cut, importantly higher than rate-cut bets conscionable a mates of weeks ago, according to the CME FedWatch tool.

Over successful Asia, Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 scale was acceptable to unfastened small changed, with its futures declaration successful Chicago trading astatine 49,880, and its counterpart successful Osaka astatine 49,910, against the index's Wednesday adjacent of 49,864.68.

Australia's ASX/S&P 200 roseate 0.21% successful aboriginal trading.

Futures for Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index pointed to a higher open, trading astatine 25,829, against the index's erstwhile adjacent of 25,760.73.

Overnight, the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 408.44 points, oregon 0.86%, to decorativeness astatine 47,882.90. The S&P 500 traded up 0.30% to extremity the time astatine 6,849.72, portion the Nasdaq Composite added 0.17% to settee astatine 23,454.09.

Stocks with vulnerability to the artificial quality commercialized were the biggest resistance connected U.S. cardinal benchmarks Wednesday stateside, aft The Information reported Microsoft was cutting bundle income quotas tied to artificial intelligence. 

Other large tech names, including Nvidia and Broadcom, pulled the broad-based S&P 500 lower.

Microsoft refuted the claims successful the report, which led the banal to retrieve somewhat successful after-hours trading.

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