China markets inch higher to clock nine straight days of gains as investors digest property price data

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Asia-Pacific markets were mostly higher Friday, with China stocks rising for the ninth straight session as investors digested property prices data.

The CSI 300 index ended 0.09% higher at 3,489.74, extending its winning streak for nine days in a row. Hong Kong's Hang Seng index was 0.13% lower in volatile trading.

Data showed sales prices of newly built commercial housing in first-tier cities fell 0.3% month-over-month in January, with declines narrowing by 0.1 percentage points from the previous month.

At the end of last year, the country's troubled property market clocked its worst declines in new home prices in nearly nine years.

South Korea's Kospi ended 0.13% higher at 2,667.70, while the smaller-cap Kosdaq closed 0.18% lower at 868.57.

In Australia, the S&P/ASX 200 closed 0.43% higher at 7,643.60.

Japan stocks were closed for trading on Friday for the Emperor's Birthday holiday. Japan markets led gains in the previous session, with the Nikkei 225 closing at a new all-time high of 39,098.68, surpassing the previous record of 38,915.87 set in 1989.

Wall Street's main indexes surged on Thursday, with the S&P 500 hitting a record high after chip giant Nvidia posted quarterly results that far exceeded estimates, boosting the tech sector.

The benchmark index gained 2.11% to close at 5,087.03, its best day since January 2023. The Nasdaq Composite jumped 2.96%, recording its best day since February 2023, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 1.18%, to close above 39,000 for the first time and at a new high of 39,069.11.

— CNBC's Pia Singh and Yun Li contributed to this report.

Singapore's consumer prices in January rose at its slowest pace in more than two years,