View of the Yarra River flowing through Melbourne city centre in Australia.
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Asia-Pacific markets are set for a mixed start to the week as investors look to key data from Australia and China later in the week.
The Reserve Bank of Australia will release its rate decision on Tuesday, while China is expected to release its trade balance for August on Thursday and its inflation rate next weekend.
In Australia, futures for the S&P/ASX 200 point to a slightly lower open, at 7,274 compared with the last close of 7,278.3.
Futures for Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index stood at 18,304, pointing to a weaker open compared with the HSI’s close of 18,382.06 last Thursday.
Hong Kong’s markets were closed Friday as the city braced for super typhoon Saola, which made landfall over the weekend.
In contrast, Japan’s Nikkei 225 is set for a strong open, with the futures contract in Chicago at 32,750 and its counterpart in Osaka at 32,760 against the index’s last close of 32,710.62.
On Friday in the U.S., the three major indexes ended mixed as traders weighed the latest U.S. jobs report, which showed that unemployment ticked higher to 3.8% in August, reaching its highest level in more than a year. Economists had expected it to remain at 3.5%.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.33%, while the S&P 500 added roughly 0.18%. The Nasdaq Composite inched down 0.02%.
— CNBC’s Brian Evans and Pia Singh contributed to this report