Asia-Pacific markets mostly rise tracking gains on Wall Street; Hong Kong leads gains

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Japan -0.05%. Japan data: August retail sales +7% y/y (+6.6% expected), industrial output beats also. The core consumer price index for the Ku-area of Tokyo in Japan rose 2.5% year-on-year in September 2023, slowing for the third consecutive month and coming in below forecasts of 2.6%. Japan's jobless rate unexpectedly unchanged at 2.7% in August Japan’s 10-year government bond yield hovered ten-year highs above 0.75% even after the Bank of Japan intervened in the market to bring down yields. Japan September consumer confidence index 35.2 vs 36.2 prior. Construction orders in Japan dropped by 4.3 percent year-on-year in August 2023....