Asia-Pacific markets, Japan tankan and trade: Live updates

News Snapshot:

Hong Kong stocks gained more than 3% as the wider Asia-Pacific markets traded mixed following Wall Street losses Wednesday, while investors assessed Japan's trade data and souring business sentiment among large manufacturers. Hong Kong's Hang Seng index advanced 3.01%, driven by property, technology and health-care stocks. China's CSI 300 traded 1.81% higher. Japan's Nikkei 225 lost 0.4% after Japanese manufacturers' business confidence tumbled to -1 in February, compared with the previous month's reading of 6, according to the Reuters Tankan poll. That marks the first negative reading since last April. The data comes less than a week after Japan slid...