Asia-Pacific markets set for lower open as investors assess Greenland developments, await key China data

Asia-Pacific markets are acceptable to unfastened little Monday, arsenic investors assessed threats from the Trump medication toward Greenland implicit the play and looked toward cardinal economical information from China.

Over the weekend, U.S. President Donald Trump and European leaders exchanged tense rhetoric implicit the Arctic territory, with Trump threatening tariffs connected 8 European countries and demanding power of Greenland, which is portion of Denmark.

European leaders responded by calling the threats "completely wrong" and "unacceptable."

Over successful Asia, China volition merchandise its fourth-quarter GDP numbers, on with December figures for retail sales, municipality concern and concern output.

Hong Kong Hang Seng scale futures were astatine 26,640, little than the HSI's past adjacent of 26,844.96.

Japan's Nikkei 225 futures pointed to a weaker unfastened for the market, with the futures declaration successful Chicago astatine 53,675 and its counterpart successful Osaka astatine 53,720 compared to the erstwhile adjacent of 53,936.17.

Australia's S&P/ASX 200 started the time marginally down.

On Friday successful the U.S., the S&P 500 ended conscionable beneath the flatline and posted a losing week, portion the Nasdaq Composite also inched down 0.06%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.17%.

The 3 large indexes deed their league lows aft Trump said successful the White House connected Friday that he'd alternatively person National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett enactment successful his existent relation and that he might not beryllium chosen to go the adjacent U.S. Fed chair.

Hassett has been seen arsenic the much market-friendly enactment to regenerate existent Fed seat than the caller frontrunner nominee, erstwhile Fed Governor Kevin Warsh, and is expected to beryllium much consenting to support rates low.

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