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European markets made a muted start to Friday’s trade.

The pan-European Stoxx 600 hovered around the flatline in early trade, with tech stocks shedding 0.4% while oil and gas shares added 0.6%.

Japan’s Nikkei 225 led losses in Asia on Friday, down 1.82% and on pace to snap a four day winning streak.

The biggest losers were tech and retail stocks, as well as a 3.79% loss in heavyweight Softbank Group.

Industrial equipment manufacturer Advantest was the largest loser on the index, falling as much as 9.97%, followed by electronics and semiconductor company Tokyo Electron, which lost 5.61%.

Tokyo Electron is the second largest weighted company on the Nikkei, and Advantest is the fourth largest.

The core inflation rate for Japan’s capital city of Tokyo came in at 2.8%, lower than the 3% in July and below the 2.9% expected from economists polled by Reuters.

This is the lowest growth rate seen in Tokyo’s core inflation since September 2022. Core inflation rate strips out prices of fresh food from the consumer price index.

Overall inflation for Tokyo came in at 2.9%, lower than the 3.2% seen in July.

— Lim Hui Jie

The energy sector is on pace for the biggest losses this week, having lost 2.4% week to date as of Thursday’s close. APA, Occidental Petroleum and EQT are all down 4% or more for the week.

Seven out of 11 of the sectors in the broad market index are down week to date.

Meanwhile, the technology sector is the biggest outperformer this week, up 1.7% ahead of Friday’s trading session.

— Hakyung Kim, Chris Hayes

Check out the companies making headlines in extended trading on Thursday.

Marvell Tech —  Shares of the chipmaker tumbled more than 5% even as the company’s quarterly results topped Wall Street’s estimates. Earnings per share came in at 33 cents, excluding items, while analysts polled by Refinitiv had estimated 32 cents per share. Marvell posted $1.34 billion in revenue, compared with analyst estimates of $1.33 billion. 

Ulta Beauty — The beauty retailer’s shares gained 1.4% after its second-quarter results came in better than expected. Ulta earned $6.02 per share on $2.51 billion in revenue. Analysts had forecasted earnings of $5.85 per share on $2.51 billion in revenue, according to Refinitiv. The company also raised its full-year forecast.

Nordstrom — Shares fell more than 3% after the company reported an earnings and revenue beat in the second quarter. To be sure, sales fell 8.3% from the year-ago quarter. 

The full list can be found here.

— Hakyung Kim

U.S. stock futures opened little changed Thursday night.

Dow Jones Industrial Average futures rose just 21 points, or 0.06%.

Futures tied to the S&P 500 traded flat, while Nasdaq 100 futures slipped 0.1%.

— Hakyung Kim