Asia-Pacific markets set to open higher after White House says Trump will meet Xi next week

Asia-Pacific markets were acceptable to unfastened higher Friday, aft the White House said that U.S. President Donald Trump and China's President Xi Jinping were acceptable to clasp talks adjacent week.

U.S. Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said Trump volition permission for Malaysia precocious Friday and past question to Japan and South Korea, meeting Xi adjacent Thursday aft speaking astatine the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation CEO Summit, Reuters reported.

Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 scale was acceptable for a higher open, with its futures declaration successful Chicago trading astatine 49,180 and its counterpart successful Osaka astatine 49,020 against the index's past adjacent of 48,641.61. Japan's halfway inflation complaint accelerated to 2.9% successful September, the archetypal summation since May and successful enactment with expectations from economists polled by Reuters.

This was higher than the 2.7% seen successful August. The halfway ostentation metric successful Japan strips retired the prices of caller nutrient but includes vigor costs.

Headline ostentation successful Japan besides climbed to 2.9% from 2.7% the erstwhile month.

Australia's ASX/S&P 200 was trading 0.19% higher connected open.

Futures of Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index pointed to a stronger open, trading astatine 26,139 against the index's erstwhile adjacent of 25,967.98.

Overnight, the 3 large averages closed higher. The S&P 500 climbed 0.58% to adjacent astatine 6,738.44, boosted by tech stocks, aft a batch of beardown net results.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average traded up 144.20 points, oregon 0.31%, to decorativeness astatine 46,734.61. The Nasdaq Composite outperformed, rising 0.89% to settee astatine 22,941.80, seeing enactment from the gains in Nvidia, Broadcom and Amazon. A astir 3% leap successful shares of chap artificial quality player Oracle also boosted sentiment.

— CNBC's Sean Conlon, Pia Singh and Lim Hui Jie contributed to this report.