Asia-Pacific markets trade mixed ahead of PMI data from China

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An worker works connected the accumulation enactment of powerfulness batteries and container chassis for caller vigor vehicles astatine a store connected July 11, 2025 successful Huaibei, Anhui Province of China.

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Asia-Pacific markets opened mixed Monday, aft Wall Street saw each 3 U.S. large indexes ascent Friday stateside.

Investors successful Asia volition beryllium watching manufacturing enactment figures retired from China aboriginal today, arsenic RatingDog publishes its purchasing managers scale for October.

Economists from Reuters expect the speechmaking to travel successful astatine 50.9, somewhat little than September's 51.2.

The official PMI numbers retired of the National Bureau of Statistics showed that China's manufacturing enactment successful October shrunk to its lowest level successful six months, coming successful astatine 49.0.

Hong Kong's Hang Seng index futures were astatine 25,975, little than the HSI's past adjacent of 25,906.65.

South Korea's Kospi was up 1.04%, portion the small-cap Kosdaq gained 0.51% astatine its open.

Australia's S&P/ASX 200 started the time 0.4% down.

The country's cardinal slope starts its two-day monetary argumentation gathering today, with economists expecting a clasp from the Reserve Bank of Australia aft ostentation readings came successful hotter than expected for the 3rd quarter.

Japan's markets are closed for a nationalist holiday.

On Friday successful the U.S., the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite precocious 0.61% astatine 23,724.96, portion the S&P 500 gained 0.26% to scope 6,840.20. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed marginally higher astatine 47,562.87.

—CNBC's Sean Conlon and Pia Singh contributed to this report.

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