2020, Busan Port, South Korea.
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Asia-Pacific stocks opened higher on Tuesday, tracking gains on Wall Street, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 IndexNasdaq Index reached new record highs.
Investors assessed South Korea’s trade data, results show trade surplus It was $6.7 billion in September, up from $3.7 billion the previous month.
South Korea’s Kospi opened 0.05% higher, while the small-cap Kosdaq rose 0.4%.
Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 rose 0.75% in early trade.
Japanese Nikkei 225 Index It opened up 1.2% and the Topix rose 0.9%.
Hong Kong Hang Seng Index The futures index was at 21,115 points, higher than the Hang Seng Index’s last closing point of 21,092.87 points.
On Wall Street, the S&P rose 0.77% to 5,859.85 points, while the 30-stock Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 201.36 points to 43,065.22 points, closing above the 43,000 mark for the first time.
The Nasdaq rose 0.87% to close at 18,502.69 points.
—CNBC’s Li Yunhe Lisa Kelley Han contributed to this report.
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