Asia-Pacific markets open higher after key Wall Street benchmarks hit record highs

Asia-Pacific markets open higher after key Wall Street benchmarks hit record highs


The port at Busan, South Korea, in 2020. South Korea and Japan are especially dependent on shipping lanes that traverse the South China Sea, linking them to the Indian Ocean, Persian Gulf and beyond.

SeongJoon Cho | Bloomberg | Getty Images

Asia-Pacific markets opened higher Tuesday, following gains on Wall Street that saw the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500Nasdaq Composite reach new record highs.

Investors assessed trade data out of South Korea, which showed a trade surplus of $6.6 billion in September, the same as the prior month.

South Korea’s Kospi opened 0.4% higher, while the small-cap Kosdaq was up 0.75%.

Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 rose 0.68% in early trading.

Japan’s Nikkei 225 opened 1.2% higher, while the broad-based Topix rose 0.9%.

Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index futures were at 21,115, higher than the HSI’s last close of 21,092.87.

On Wall Street, the broad market S&P climbed 0.77% to 5,859.85, while the 30-stock Dow advanced 201.36 points to 43,065.22, ending the session above the 43,000 mark for the first time.

The Nasdaq Composite added 0.87%, closing at 18,502.69.

— CNBC’s Yun Li and Lisa Kailai Han contributed to this report.



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