Japan -0.37%. Japan Data: Tertiary Industry Index for December -0.4% m/m (+0.1% expected).
Porcelain -0.48%. China’s central bank has kept interest rates unchanged at 2.75% on 499 billion yuan of one-year medium-term loans.
Hong Kong -1.45%.
Australia -1.06%. Australian Stocks Banks fell as Reserve Bank of Australia Governor Philip Lowe stressed that inflation remains high, speaking at the Senate Committee on Economic Law.
India +0.05%.
Overnight on Wall Street, the major stock indexes, the NASDAQ were up, but the S&P and the Dow Industrial Average were down that day. The Dow Industrial Average -156.66 points or -0.46% to 34089.28; S&P Index -1.16 points or -0.03% to 4,136.14; and the NASDAQ index rose 68.37 points or 0.57% to 11960.18.
The US Consumer Price Index, which measures a broad basket of common goods and services, rose 0.5% in January, translating to a 6.4% annual gain. Economists surveyed by Dow Jones had expected increases of 0.4% and 6.2% respectively. .
South Korea’s unemployment inched down to 2.9% in January, government data showed, after hitting 3.3% in December.
Gold prices settled at $1,856.30 during the Asian afternoon trading session.
US futures lower. dow jones -0.44%; S&P 500 -0.57%; nasdaq -0.78%.
