Tokyo is 1 of the astir densely populated cities successful the world, portion agrarian areas of Japan are suffering with ageing populations and declining commencement rates.
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Asia-Pacific markets were acceptable to mostly unfastened lower, tracking Wall Street losses arsenic investors awaited the cardinal monetary argumentation determination from the U.S. Federal Reserve's two-day meeting, wherever it is expected to chopped involvement rates.
Investors are besides looking to Japan's August commercialized information and Singapore's non-domestic lipid exports successful August, which are owed retired aboriginal today.
Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 scale was acceptable for a little open, with its futures declaration successful Chicago past traded astatine 44,635, and its counterpart successful Osaka astatine 44,550, against the index's past adjacent of 44,902.27.
Australia's ASX/S&P 200 was besides poised for a little open, with its futures declaration trading astatine 8,832, against the index's Tuesday adjacent of 8,877.7.
Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index was acceptable to unfastened higher, with its futures declaration past traded astatine 26,612, against the index's erstwhile adjacent of 26,438.51.
U.S. equity futures were small changed successful aboriginal Asian hours up of the Fed gathering Wednesday stateside. The cardinal slope is wide expected to chopped involvement rates for the archetypal clip since December.
Overnight stateside, U.S. stocks were little arsenic investors took immoderate profits up of the Fed outcome.
The S&P 500 traded 0.13% little to adjacent astatine 6606.76, aft hitting a caller grounds earlier successful the session. The Nasdaq Composite lost 0.07% to decorativeness the league astatine 22,333.96. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 125.55 points, oregon 0.27%, to adjacent astatine 45,757.90.
— CNBC's Pia Singh and Alex Harring contributed to this report.
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