Asia-Pacific markets set to trade mixed as investors kick off final trading week of 2025

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19 November 2025, China, Shanghai: Boats sail past downtown Shanghai connected the Huangpu River. The tallest gathering connected the skyline is the Shanghai Tower (rear).

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Asia-Pacific markets were acceptable to unfastened mixed Monday arsenic investors kicked disconnected the last trading week of the year.

Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 scale was acceptable for a higher open, with its futures declaration successful Chicago trading astatine 50,920, against Friday's adjacent of 50,750.39.

Hong Kong's Hang Seng index futures were astatine 25,810, somewhat little than the HSI's past adjacent of 25,818.93.

Australia's S&P/ASX 200 roseate 0.2%.

U.S. equity futures were level successful aboriginal Asian hours. On Friday stateside, the S&P 500 reached a caller high and posted play gains arsenic traders came backmost from the Christmas holiday.

The wide marketplace scale closed down 0.03% to extremity astatine 6,929.94. At its high, the S&P 500 was up 0.2%, reaching 6,945.77. The Nasdaq Composite slipped 0.09% and closed astatine 23,593.10. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 20.19 points, oregon 0.04%, and settled astatine 48,710.97.

For the week, the S&P 500 gained 1.4%, notching its 4th play beforehand successful 5 weeks. The Dow and Nasdaq were besides up much than 1% week to date.

— CNBC's Sean Conlon and Fred Imbert contributed to this report.

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