Asia-Pacific markets mixed following overnight declines on Wall Street
Stocks in Asia-Pacific were mixed in Friday morning trade following overnight declines for the major indexes on Wall Street.
In Japan, the NIkkei 225 declined 0.48% while the Topix index shed 0.36%.
Japan’s core consumer prices declined 0.6% in January as compared with a year earlier, according to data released Friday by the country’s Statistics Bureau. That marked the sixth straight month of annual declines, according to Reuters.
South Korea’s Kospi gained about 0.20%.
Stocks in Australia slipped as the S&P/ASX 200 declined about 0.65%.
MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan traded 0.06% higher.
Reference: CNBC
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