Stock Market Today: Asian Benchmarks Mostly Rise in Subdued Trading on US Jobs Worries

Currency traders watch monitors at the foreign exchange dealing room of the KEB Hana Bank headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, on Oct. 6, 2023. Ahn Young-joon/AP

TOKYO—Asian shares mostly rose in cautious trading Friday after Wall Street drifted to a quiet close on worries about a too-hot U.S. job market.

Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 fell 0.3 percent to finish at 30,994.67. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 rose 0.4 percent to 6,954.20. South Korea’s Kospi edged up 0.2 percent to 2,408.73. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng jumped 1.4 percent to 17,449.42.