View of the Yarra River flowing through Melbourne city centre in Australia.
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Asia-Pacific markets were mixed to start 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, the S&P/ASX 200 started the week up 0.37%, while Japan’s Nikkei 225 also climbed 0.12% and the Topix was 0.16% higher.
South Korea’s Kospi gained 0.21%, while the Kosdaq was down 0.18%.
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.
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