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Japan -0.37%. Japan data: December Tertiary Industry Index -0.4% m/m (expected +0.1%).
China -0.48%. China’s central bank has kept its interest rates unchanged at 2.75% on 499 billion yuan of one-year medium-term lending facility loans.
Hong Kong -1.45%.
Australia -1.06%. Shares of Australian banks fell as Reserve Bank of Australia governor Philip Lowe highlighted inflation remains at elevated levels, speaking at the Senate Economics Legislation Committee.
India +0.05%.
Overnight on Wall Street, major stock indexes, the NASDAQ moved higher, but the S&P and Dow Industrial Average were lower on the day. The Dow Industrial Average -156.66 points or -0.46% at 34089.28; S&P index -1.16 points or -0.03% at 4136.14; and NASDAQ index up 68.37 points or 0.57% at 11960.18.
The U.S. consumer price index, which measures a broad basket of common goods and services, rose 0.5% in January, which translated to an annual gain of 6.4%.Economists surveyed by Dow Jones had been looking for respective increases of 0.4% and 6.2%.
South Korea’s unemployment inched lower to 2.9% in the month of January, government data showed, after marking 3.3% in December.
Gold prices stood at $1,856.30 during Asia’s afternoon trading session.
US futures lower. Dow Jones -0.44%; S&P 500 -0.57%; Nasdaq -0.78%.
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