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Sydney Harbour and the skyline of the cardinal concern territory (CBD) successful Sydney, Australia, connected Tuesday, April 29, 2025.
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Asia-Pacific markets were acceptable to autumn Thursday, arsenic investors weighed the U.S. Federal Reserve's determination to support involvement rates steady, portion the ongoing struggle betwixt Israel and Iran continues to dent sentiment.
Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 was acceptable to unfastened lower, with the futures declaration successful Chicago astatine 38,820 portion its counterpart successful Osaka past traded astatine 38,650, against the index's Tuesday adjacent of 38,885.15.
Futures for Hong Kong's Hang Seng index past traded astatine 23,536, pointing to a weaker unfastened compared with the HSI's past adjacent of 23,710.69.
Australia's S&P/ASX 200 is slated to commencement the time somewhat little with futures tied to the benchmark astatine 8,525, compared with its past adjacent of 8,531.2.
Investors are besides awaiting Taiwan and Philippines' cardinal slope decisions aboriginal successful the day.
The U.S. Federal Reserve expectedly held involvement rates dependable connected Wednesday, leaving its benchmark complaint unchanged astatine 4.25%-4.5%, wherever it has stood since December. Fed Chair Jerome Powell signaled that the Fed committee volition hold to spot the interaction of President Donald Trump's tariffs connected ostentation earlier considering immoderate adjustments to monetary policies.
However, the Fed inactive pointed to 2 complaint cuts aboriginal this year.
Overnight connected Wall Street, the 3 large averages ended the trading time mixed. The 30-stock Dow lost 44.14 points, oregon 0.10%, and ended astatine 42,171.66. The S&P 500 slipped 0.03% to adjacent astatine 5,980.87, and the Nasdaq Composite inched up 0.13% to settee astatine 19,546.27.
— CNBC's Sean Conlon and Lisa Kailai Han contributed to this report.