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Asia-Pacific markets fall, taking lead from Wall Street’s losses | AturartA

CNBC – UPDATED THU, DEC 29 20222:56 AM EST

Asia-Pacific markets traded lower, taking the lead from Wall Street’s losses overnight as investors looked to the year ahead.

The Nikkei 225 in Japan fell 0.94% to close at 26,093.67 while the Topix shed 0.72% to 1,895.27. South Korea’s Kospi fell 1.93% to 2,236.4 as the country’s retail sales for November fell 1.8%, the third consecutive month of declines, reversing gains seen in the third quarter. The S&P/ASX 200 in Australia also dropped 0.97% to close at 7,020.1.

Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index dropped 0.97% in its final hour of trade – despite further easing of Covid restrictions takes into effect today, with stocks related to re-opening being closely watched. The city will release its trade data later in the day.

In mainland China, the Shanghai Composite declined 0.44% to 3,073.7 and the Shenzhen Component traded lower to close at 10,996.4

The U.S. government announced it will require airline passengers arriving from China, Hong Kong and Macau to show a negative Covid test starting Jan. 5 regardless of nationality of vaccination status.

Overnight on Wall Street, the major indexes closed lower as investors headed into the final trading days of the 2022, with Apple weighing heavily on the Dow as it broke a key level and fell to another 52-week low.

Source: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/29/asia-pacific-markets-wall-street-industrial-output-hong-kong-eases-restrictions.html