Asia-Pacific markets set to open higher after S&P and Dow set fresh records

Asia-Pacific markets were acceptable to unfastened higher connected Friday, aft the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average deed caller all-time highs overnight pursuing the Federal Reserve's outsized complaint cut.

Japan's Nikkei 225 futures pointed to a stronger unfastened for the market, with the Chicago declaration astatine 37,735 and its counterpart successful Osaka astatine 37,590 compared to the index's erstwhile adjacent of 37,155.33.

Japan's halfway user prices scale climbed 2.8% twelvemonth connected year, successful enactment with marketplace expectations, according to analysts polled by Reuters, versus 2.7% successful the erstwhile month.

The speechmaking volition beryllium the past gauge of the system earlier the BOJ concludes its two-day monetary argumentation meeting.

The Japanese yen weakened somewhat to 142.84.

China's PBOC is besides scheduled to denote its determination connected benchmark lending rates astatine a monthly fixing.

Futures for Australia's S&P/ASX 200 stood astatine 8,281 higher than its past adjacent of 8,191.9.

Japan's Nikkei 225 futures pointed to a stronger unfastened for the market, with the futures declaration successful Chicago astatine 37,720 and its counterpart successful Osaka astatine 37,500 compared to the erstwhile adjacent of 37,155.33.

Hong Kong's Hang Seng index futures were astatine 18,177, higher than HSI's past adjacent of 18,013.

Overnight successful the U.S., each 3 large indexes ended higher with the Dow Jones Industrial Average rising 1.26% to adjacent astatine 42,025.19, crossing the 42,000 threshold for the archetypal time.

The S&P 500 added 1.7% to extremity astatine 5,713.64, topping 5,700 for the archetypal time.

The Nasdaq Composite surged 2.51% to decorativeness astatine 18,013.98.

—CNBC's Lisa Kailai Han and Hakyung Kim contributed to this report.