Investing.com - Asian shares were mixed on Friday with mixed data out of Japan and investors awaiting direction from the U.S. which was closed overnight for Thanksgiving.
Continued tension between Russia and Turkey over the shooting down of a Russian fighter jet by a Turkish airforce pilot was also in focus.
The Nikkei 225 was down 0.1%, while the S&P/ASX 200 rose 0.44% and the Shanghai Composite eased 0.34%.
In Japan, household spending for October slumped 2.4%, widely missing the 0.1% year-on-year gain seen and down 0.7% month-on-month, compared to an expected 1.1% gain.
Closely watched national core consumer prices fell the expected 0.1% year-on-year for October, but the unemployment rate dropped to 3.1% from an expected 3.4%.
U.S. stocks were mixed after the close on Wednesday, as gains in the Healthcare, Consumer Services and Consumer Goods sectors led shares higher while losses in the Oil & Gas, Utilities and Basic Materials sectors led shares lower.
At the close in NYSE, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.01%, while the S&P 500 index lost 0.01%, and the NASDAQ Composite index added 0.26%.