The horizon of Seoul.
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Markets in Asia-Pacific exchanged mixed Thursday, monitoring of gains at Wall Street as a possible thaw in the optimism of investors of the American-china trade.
Japan benchmark Nikkei 225 increased by more than 1%, extending the earnings of the day before. The Topix added 0.81%. In South Korea Kospit Slipped 0.47% while Kosdaq with small capitalization fell 0.15%.
Australia S&P / ASX 200 increased by 0.56%.
The Hong Kong Hang Seng index slipped 0.29% while the CSI 300 in continental China exchanged flat.
South Korea’s GDP contracted 0.1% in the first quarter of 2025, according to advanced figures published Thursday, missing the increase of 0.1% expected by a reuters survey.
American term contracts were moderate after the main American indices published a second day of consecutive victory. The S&P 500 term contracts increased by 0.1%, while the term contracts on Nasdaq 100 exchanged almost 0.1% more. The term contracts linked to the industrial average of Dow Jones lost 45 points, or 0.1%.
Overnight, the three major averages closed higher in the hope that American-Chinese commercial tensions could soon relax. President Donald Trump also pointed out that he did not plan to withdraw the president of the Federal Reserve Jerome Powell from his post as head of the central bank.
The industrial average of Dow Jones added 419.59 points, or 1.07%, to end at 39,606.57. The S&P 500 climbed 1.67% to end at 5,375.86, and the Nasdaq Composite collected 2.50% to be resolved at 16,708.05. The three indexes displayed consecutive gains.
– Lisa Kailai Han of CNBC and Brian Evans contributed to this report.
