Asian markets ended mostly higher in thin trade on Wednesday, with Chinese and Hong Kong markets closing for the National Day holiday. Seoul shares gained by tracking Wall Street’s gains overnight and after the release of better-than-anticipated September export data. However, Japanese shares declined as the yen extended gains on growing investor anxiety ahead of the leadership election for the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and as the United States federal government officially entered a shutdown, the first in nearly seven years, after congress failed to reach a deal on a funding package.
| Asian Indices | Last Trade | Change in Points | Change in % |
| Shanghai Composite | -- | -- | -- |
| Hang Seng | -- | -- | -- |
| Jakarta Composite | 8,043.82 | -17.24 | -0.21 |
| KLSE Composite | 1,620.87 | 8.99 | 0.56 |
| Nikkei 225 | 44,550.85 | -381.78 | -0.85 |
| Straits Times | 4,323.12 | 22.96 | 0.53 |
| KOSPI Composite | 3,455.83 | 31.23 | 0.91 |
| Taiwan Weighted | 25,982.91 | 162.37 | 0.63 |
