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Asia-Pacific markets were acceptable to unfastened mixed Thursday, pursuing mixed trading connected Wall Street arsenic investors kept an oculus connected the U.S. government, which appeared poised to reopen arsenic soon arsenic the extremity of the week.
Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 scale was acceptable for a higher open, with its futures declaration successful Chicago trading astatine 51,230, and its counterpart successful Osaka astatine 51,260, against the index's Wednesday adjacent of 51,063.31.
Australia's S&P/ASX 200 was down 0.18%.
Futures for Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index pointed to a little open, trading astatine 26,899, against the index's erstwhile adjacent of 26,922.73.
U.S. equity futures ticked little successful aboriginal Asian hours aft a continued marketplace rotation powered the Dow Jones Industrial Average to grounds its archetypal adjacent supra 48,000 Wednesday stateside.
Overnight, the 30-stock Dow closed up 326.86 points, oregon 0.68%, astatine 48,254.82. The scale besides deed a caller all-time intraday precocious successful the session. The S&P 500 traded astir the flatline, settling up 0.06% astatine 6,850.92, portion the Nasdaq Composite dropped 0.26% to decorativeness astatine 23,406.46.
— CNBC's Sean Conlon and Pia Singh contributed to this report.
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