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At 6:36 AM on Wednesday, GIFT Nifty futures were trading at 25,937, lower by merely 3 points.

On the data front, globally, investors await inflation data from the UK, and the Euro Area.

Among global peers, markets across the Asia-Pacific region were mostly lower on Wednesday as investors assessed newly released trade data from Japan.

Japan’s exports rose 6.1 per cent year on year in November, beating economists’ expectations of a 4.8 per cent increase, according to a Reuters poll, and accelerating from October’s 3.6 per cent growth. Despite the stronger data, Japan’s Nikkei 225 slipped 0.14 per cent. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 also edged down 0.21 per cent, while South Korea’s Kospi bucked the regional trend, rising 0.5 per cent.