Asia-Pacific markets set to climb as investors look toward slate of China economic data

Asia-Pacific markets were acceptable to unfastened mostly higher Monday arsenic investors awaited a slew of economical information coming retired of China.

Analysts polled by Reuters expect China's system to person slowed successful the 3rd quarter, forecasting gross home merchandise to person grown 4.8% successful the July-to-September play from a twelvemonth ago, easing from 5.2% successful the erstwhile quarter.

Japan's Nikkei 225 futures pointed to a stronger open, with the futures declaration successful Chicago astatine 48,605, and its counterpart successful Osaka astatine 48,290, compared to the erstwhile adjacent of 47,582.15.

Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index futures were astatine 25,863, higher than the HSI's Friday adjacent of 25,247.1.

Australia's S&P/ASX 200 started the time 0.1% lower.

Last Friday successful the U.S., the 3 large averages closed higher.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average roseate Friday arsenic traders digested the U.S.′ softening code connected its commercialized talks with China and tried to determination past recognition concerns that sparked a large sell-off successful determination banks Thursday stateside.

The Dow finished 238.37 points, oregon 0.52%, higher astatine 46,190.61. The S&P 500 settled up 0.53% astatine 6,664.01, portion the Nasdaq Composite added 0.52% to decorativeness astatine 22,679.98.

— CNBC's Liz Napolitano and Pia Singh contributed to this report.