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People standing outside a shop in Pitt Street Mall in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, on Boxing Day.
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Asia-Pacific markets opened higher on Thursday, with several markets remaining closed for Boxing Day.
Japan Nikkei 225 rose 0.37%, while the Topix added 0.49%. South Korea Kospi rose 0.12% while the Kosdaq rose 0.48%.
Markets in Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong were closed for the Boxing Day holiday.
Asian traders will be watching November manufacturing production data from Singapore later in the day.
Overnight in the United States, markets were closed for Christmas. Stocks rose on Christmas Eve Tuesday as the market made back-to-back gains in the holiday week.
He S&P 500 added 1.1% to 6,040.04, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average it gained 390.08 points, or 0.91%, to 43,297.03. He Nasdaq Composite rose 1.35% to 20,031.13, helped by a 7.4% jump in tesla actions.
Tuesday marked the start of the seasonal Santa Claus surge, which occurs on the last five business days of the year and the first two of January.
—CNBC’s Yun Li and Sean Conlon contributed to this story.
