Asia-Pacific markets mostly advanced on Tuesday, with Japan's Nikkei 225 reaching a record high as investors welcomed the overnight extension of the US-China trade truce, giving the world's two largest economies more time to negotiate a deal. Australia's key S&P/ASX 200 index rose by 0.28 per cent to reach 8,869.70 at 2:45 p.m. In South Korea, SK Hynix's shares rose by 1.69 per cent, and Samsung Electronics was up by 1.06 per cent. In Taiwan, TSMC was trading 0.42 per cent higher, while Hon Hai Precision Industry, also known as Foxconn, was down by 0.51 per cent. Attribution: CNBC Subediting: Y.Yasser
