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• European stocks open lower on Thursday as central banks take center stage.

• Japan’s Nikkei share average rose on Thursday in choppy trade despite a strong yen with pension funds and retail investors scooping up recently-battered stocks with attractive valuations.

The Nikkei ended 1.0 percent higher at 21,591.99, after trading in negative territory in early trade. Japanese markets were closed on Wednesday for a national holiday.

• China stocks fell on Thursday, led by consumer and real estate firms, as investors digested the impact of a rate hike by the U.S. Federal Reserve and as concerns over a potential trade war between the world’s largest and second-largest economies intensified.

At the close, the Shanghai Composite index was down 0.5 percent at 3,263.48, while the blue-chip CSI300 index was down 1 percent at 4,020.35.

U.S. President Donald Trump will announce tariffs on Chinese imports on Thursday, a White House official said, in a move aimed at curbing theft of U.S. technology and likely to trigger retaliation from Beijing and stoke fears of a global trade war.