a pedestrian looks at an electronic quotation board showing numbers of the nikkei 225 index in tokyo on september 11 2020 asiapacific markets are mostly set to rise ahead after wall street saw a tech rally led by nvidia and us negotiators moved closer to a debt ceiling deal with just a week to go before the government faces a potential default in japan the nikkei 225 is set to rise above the 31000 level after marking a 33year high earlier the futures contract in chicago was at 31035 and its counterpart in osaka was at 31070 against its last close of 3080113 japan will also release inflation figures for tokyo today in australia futures for the spasx 200 were at 7150 higher than the indexs last close of 71382 the country will publish retail sales figures for may hong kongs hang seng index is closed for a holiday after hitting its lowest level this year on thursday