Sydney Opera House, designed by Danish designer Mr Jorn Oberg Utzon, astatine archetypal airy arsenic the prima rises implicit Sydney harbor and metropolis halfway skyscrapers.
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Asia-Pacific markets were acceptable to unfastened mixed Wednesday arsenic investors awaited Australia's ostentation data.
Australia is owed to station its Consumer Price Index information for November aboriginal successful the morning. The country's benchmark ASX/S&P 200 roseate 0.37%. Citi analysts expect November's header ostentation to travel successful astatine 3.6% and trimmed mean ostentation of 3.3% from a twelvemonth earlier.
Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 scale was acceptable for a little open, with its futures declaration successful Chicago trading astatine 52,240, and its counterpart successful Osaka astatine 50,050, against the index's past adjacent of 52,518.08.
Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index was besides poised for a weaker open, with its futures declaration trading astatine 26,685, against the index's erstwhile adjacent of 26,710.45.
U.S. equity futures were small changed successful aboriginal Asian hours.
Overnight successful the U.S., the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average reached caller heights arsenic investors moved past the caller U.S. onslaught connected Venezuela.
The wide marketplace scale roseate 0.62%, notching a grounds adjacent of 6,944.82. It also posted a caller all-time high during the session. The blue-chip Dow precocious 484.90 points, oregon 0.99%, likewise reaching an intraday all-time precocious and closing astatine a grounds of 49,462.08. The Nasdaq Composite climbed 0.65% and ended astatine 23,547.17.
— CNBC's Liz Napolitano, Fred Imbert and Sean Conlon contributed to this report.
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