World Shares Are Mixed After Lackluster Day on Wall Street, but Tokyo Jumps 2 Percent

People walk past an electronic stock board showing Japan's Nikkei 225 index at a securities firm in Tokyo on Jan. 10, 2024. Shuji Kajiyama/AP Photo

HONG KONG—World markets were mixed on Wednesday after a lackluster session on Wall Street, while Tokyo’s benchmark hit its highest level since March 1990 as a weaker yen lifted stock prices of export manufacturers.

The future for the S&P 500 was up 0.2 percent, while that for the Dow Jones Industrial Average was almost unchanged.