• Asian markets were a mixed bag early on Friday, after U.S. stocks fell overnight as risk sentiment sours ahead of Donald Trump's inauguration and investors look ahead to China GDP, retail sales and industrial production.
MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan slipped 0.1 percent, and looked set to end the week flat.
Japan's Nikkei rose 0.1 percent, on track for a near 1 percent weekly loss.
Reference: Reuters, CNBC