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Stock market today: Asian shares trade mixed ahead of a key US jobs report
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FILE - Currency traders watch monitors at the foreign exchange dealing room of the KEB Hana Bank headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, on Aug. 30, 2023. Asian shares were trading mixed Friday, Sept. 1 as investors looked toward a United States jobs report being released later in the day. - photo by AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File
TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were trading mixed Friday as investors looked toward a U.S. jobs report being released later in the day. Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 rose 0.3% to finish at 32,710.62. Australia's S&P/ASX 200 slipped 0.4% to 7,278.30.