Asia-Pacific stocks set for mixed open; Dow falls for third straight session

Asia-Pacific stocks set for mixed open; Dow falls for third straight session

SINGAPORE — Shares in Asia-Pacific were little changed in Thursday morning trade, after the Dow Jones Industrial Average saw its overnight on Wall Street. In Japan, the was fractionally higher while the Topix index dipped about 0.1%. South Korea's advanced 0.1%. Meanwhile, shares in Australia dipped, with the fractionally lower. MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan traded flat. Overnight stateside, the Dow dropped 152.68 points to 34,447.14 while the S&P 500 slipped 0.18% to 4,219.55. The Nasdaq Composite slipped roughly 0.1% to 13,911.75. Those moves came ahead of U.S. consumer inflation data. The U.S. consumer price index for May, set to be reported at 8:30 a.m. ET Thursday, is . Currencies and oil The , which tracks the greenback against a basket of its peers, was at 90.143 after recently bouncing from below the 90 level. The traded at 109.65 per dollar, weaker than levels around 109.2 against the greenback seen earlier this week. The changed hands at $0.7727, having seen a recent drop from about $0.776. Oil prices were lower in the morning of Asia trading hours, with international benchmark down 0.22% to $72.06 per barrel. shed 0.29% to $69.76 per barrel.