asiapacific markets are set for a mixed open on wednesday as investors digest betterthanexpected results from wall street overall the earnings season was off to a strong start of the sp 500 companies that have reported 84 exceeded profit estimates according to factset in japan the nikkei 225 looks to extend its gains from tuesday with the futures contract in chicago at 32860 and its counterpart in osaka at 32730 against its last close at 32493 however business sentiment in japan declined for the first time in six months according to reuters tankan survey which measures confidence among large japanese companies in australia futures for the spasx 200 were at 7278 lower than the indexs last close of 72838 australia will see its unemployment figures out thursday seen as critical to the central bank on whether it will continue to hike rates hong kongs hang seng index looks set to continue sliding after falling more than 2 on tuesday with futures at 18898 compared to the hsis last close of 1901572