Asia-Pacific markets traded mixed on Thursday after a soft inflation report in the U.S. helped two of the three benchmarks on Wall Street reverse course from two days of losses. The consumer price index — a broad-based measure of costs across the U.S. economy — increased 0.2% month-on-month in February, putting the annual inflation rate at 2.8%. The latest reading "is welcome relief," said Vishnu Varathan, Mizhuo Bank's head of macro research in Asia excluding Japan. "Crucially, February's inflation will almost certainly not entail any tariff impact, which means that the relief, while welcome, is redemption for Fed [U.S. Federal...