People ticker the archetypal sunrise of the caller twelvemonth from a footbridge overlooking the metropolis skyline successful Seoul connected January 1, 2024.
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Asia-Pacific markets are acceptable to unfastened mixed Thursday, aft investors continued selling tech names connected Wall Street similar Nvidia and Oracle for a 2nd consecutive day.
Nvidia slid astir 1%, continuing its declines from Tuesday arsenic heightened fears astir the perchance circular quality of the AI manufacture drew capitalist skepticism.
Futures for Australia's S&P/ASX 200 stood astatine 8,769, somewhat higher than its past adjacent of 8,764.5.
In contrast, Japan's Nikkei 225 futures pointed to a weaker unfastened for the market, with the futures declaration successful Chicago astatine 45,450 and its counterpart successful Osaka astatine 45,420 compared to the erstwhile adjacent of 45,630.31
Hong Kong Hang Seng index futures were astatine 26,394, little than the HSI's past adjacent of 26,518.65. Investors successful Hong Kong volition beryllium watching Chinese automaker Chery Automobile's listing aboriginal today, though the ceremonial volition reportedly beryllium canceled owed to Super Typhoon Ragasa.
U.S. banal futures were small changed arsenic investors awaited Thursday's merchandise of play jobless claims data, which could power the Federal Reserve's monetary argumentation moves amid expanding concerns astir a weakening labour marketplace and rising layoffs.
Overnight successful the U.S., the S&P 500 dropped 0.28% to extremity astatine 6,637.97, portion the Nasdaq Composite pulled backmost 0.34% to settee astatine 22,497.86.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average declined 0.37%, to decorativeness astatine 46,121.28.
—CNBC's Sean Conlon and Pia Singh contributed to this report.