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The Reserve Bank of Australia is expected to holds its benchmark lending rate at 4.35%.

European stock markets opened in the green on Friday, rounding off a broadly negative week dominated by corporate earnings.

Investors will be closely watching the U.S. nonfarm payrolls data after the U.S. Federal Reserve held interest rates steady at the end of its two-day meeting on Wednesday.

Japanese Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki on Friday backed currency interventions by his country's policymakers if the yen moved in sharp directions.

Asia markets were mostly lower on Thursday after the U.S. Federal Reserve opted to hold interest rates steady, while the yen continued to strengthen.

Most markets in the region are closed for the Labor Day holiday, except Australia and Japan

Japan's top currency diplomat Masato Kanda declined to comment on whether the finance ministry had intervened in the yen.

These were some of the stocks making the largest moves in trading on Tuesday.

The Japanese yen touched 160 against the U.S. dollar, while investors awaited Japan's industrial production and retail sales data from March later in the week.