Ulsan metropolis skyline from the Hamwolru Pavilion. People tin bask beauteous cityscape for free. Ulsan, South Korea.
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Asia-Pacific markets were poised to unfastened mostly higher Tuesday as investors awaited the result of the talks led by U.S. President Donald Trump with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and European leaders astatine the White House.
Japan's Nikkei 225 was acceptable to unfastened higher, with the futures declaration successful Chicago astatine 43,875 portion its counterpart successful Osaka past traded astatine 43,780, against the index's Monday grounds precocious adjacent of 43,714.31.
Australia's S&P/ASX 200 was acceptable to commencement the time lower, with futures tied to the benchmark astatine 8,874, compared with the index's past adjacent of 8,959.30.
Futures for Hong Kong's Hang Seng index stood astatine 25,230, pointing to a stronger unfastened compared with the HSI's past adjacent of 25,176.85.
Investors are besides looking up to the U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell's yearly code astatine the cardinal bank's acme successful Jackson Hole, Wyoming, that's scheduled Friday.
U.S. equity futures were small changed successful aboriginal Asia hours, astatine the commencement of a week filled with retail net and speeches from Fed officials.
Overnight stateside, each 3 cardinal benchmarks ended the time adjacent the flatline.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 34.30 points, oregon 0.08%, to adjacent astatine 44,911.82. The S&P 500 closed down 0.01% and ended astatine 6,449.15, portion the Nasdaq Composite inched up 0.03% to settee astatine 21,629.77.
Shares of 2 of the alleged magnificent 7 stocks Meta Platforms and Microsoft dropped astir 2.3% and 0.6%, weighing connected the broader market.
— CNBC's Yun Li, Pia Singh and Alex Harring contributed to this report.