Asian markets ended mostly lower on Friday as global investors' focus is now on the US tariff decisions, big tech earnings and interest rate decisions from both the Bank of Japan and the US Federal Reserve. Both Fed and BoJ meetings are expected to hold interest rates steady. Chinese and Hong Kong shares fell ahead of the third round of the US-China trade negotiations, and as the EU-China summit yielded few concrete changes. Japanese shares declined even as Tokyo’s soft CPI inflation data complicated the Bank of Japan's interest-rate hike prospects.
| Asian Indices | Last Trade | Change in Points | Change in % |
| Shanghai Composite | 3,593.66 | -12.07 | -0.34 |
| Hang Seng | 25,323.00 | -344.18 | -1.36 |
| Jakarta Composite | 7,543.50 | 12.60 | 0.17 |
| KLSE Composite | 1,533.76 | -6.56 | -0.43 |
| Nikkei 225 | 41,467.00 | -359.34 | -0.87 |
| Straits Times | 4,261.06 | -11.99 | -0.28 |
| KOSPI Composite | 3,196.05 | 5.60 | 0.18 |
| Taiwan Weighted | 23,364.38 | -9.35 | -0.04 |
