People observe the New Year astatine the Bank of China gathering successful Central successful Hong Kong, China, January 1, 2026.
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Asia-Pacific markets are acceptable to unfastened mixed Friday to footwear disconnected the caller year.
All 3 large indexes successful the U.S. pulled backmost connected New Year's Eve, but inactive clocked gains connected a year-to -ate basis.
Some Asian markets were inactive closed for the holidays, including Japan and mainland China.
Australia's S&P/ASX 200 started the time flat.
Hong Kong's Hang Seng index futures were astatine 25,648, marginally higher than the past adjacent of 25,630.54.
Singapore is expected to merchandise its 4th fourth GDP figures aboriginal today. On Wednesday, Prime Minister Lawrence Wong announced successful his New Year connection that the state had clocked a stronger-than-expected 4.8% enlargement for the afloat twelvemonth of 2025.
U.S. banal futures were looking up successful aboriginal Asian hours, with S&P futures up by 0.15% and Nasdaq-100 futures climbing 0.12%. Dow Jones Industrial Average futures were 0.16% higher.
On Wednesday stateside, the S&P 500 dipped 0.74%, portion the Nasdaq Composite fell 0.76% and the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 0.63%.
However, the S&P 500 inactive locked successful a 16.39% summation twelvemonth to date.
The Nasdaq Composite rode AI enthusiasm to a 20.36% advance, and the Dow roseate 12.97% successful 2025, hindered a spot by its deficiency of tech representation.
—CNBC's Sean Conlon and Sarah Min contributed to this report.
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