Asia-Pacific markets set for mixed trading as investors await China inflation data, Fed decision

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Asia-Pacific markets were acceptable to commercialized mixed connected Wednesday arsenic investors awaited ostentation information from China aboriginal successful the time and an involvement complaint determination from the Federal Reserve.

Traders are looking up to the Federal Reserve's intimately watched involvement complaint announcement connected Wednesday stateside, the last 1 of the year. Markets mostly expect the Fed to trim its benchmark overnight lending complaint by different 0.25 percent point, matching the cuts made successful September and October.

Over successful Asia, Australia's S&P/ASX 200 was small changed successful aboriginal trade.

Japan's Nikkei 225 futures pointed to a stronger unfastened for the market, with the futures declaration successful Chicago astatine 50,810 and its counterpart successful Osaka astatine 50,830 compared to the erstwhile adjacent of 50,655.1.

Hong Kong Hang Seng index futures were astatine 25,399, little than their past adjacent of 25,434.23.

Overnight successful the U.S., the S&P 500 closed comparatively unchanged. The wide marketplace scale traded astir the flatline, slipping conscionable 0.09% to adjacent astatine 6,840.51, portion the Nasdaq Composite gained 0.13% to extremity the time astatine 23,576.49. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 179.03 points, oregon 0.38%, to decorativeness astatine 47,560.29. The 30-stock scale was dragged down by a diminution in JPMorgan shares connected higher-than-expected 2026 disbursal projections.

—CNBC's Sean Conlon and Alex Harring contributed to this report.

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