Market Report - Asia
Asia report: China PMI positive while Japan industry disappoints
Markets in Asia finished mixed on Wednesday, amid better-than-expected PMI figures from China and a weaker sterling.
Asia report: Markets mixed on another quiet day
Markets in Asia finished mixed on Tuesday, after a flat Monday on which a number of major indices around the world were closed for public holidays.
Asia report: Markets mixed after OPEC output cut extension
Asian markets ended mixed on Friday, with traders having a muted reaction to the news that oil producers had agreed to extend output cuts by nine months at an OPEC meeting in Vienna.
Asia report: Markets higher as traders focus on Fed, oil
Markets in Asia were mostly higher on Thursday, as investors digested the Federal Reserve’s May meeting minutes amid strengthened hopes for deeper oil production cuts at an upcoming OPEC meeting.
Asia report: Most markets higher as Moody's downgrades China rating
Markets in Asia finished mostly higher on Wednesday, with downgrade in China’s credit rating from Moody’s coming during the day, and investors beginning to close their wallets as they waited for the FOMC minutes to be released during their Thursday session.
Asia report: Most markets finish session lower
Markets in Asia finished mostly lower on Tuesday, with investors ignoring the solid performance on Wall Street overnight, as news of the deadly bombing in Manchester came through during the session.
Asia report: Most markets higher as DPRK tests another missile
Most markets in Asia were higher on Monday, reacting to Wall Street’s Friday recovery with traders seeming to largely brush off another missile test from North Korea over the weekend.
Asia report: Shares finish turbulent week on mixed note
Asian shares finished the week on a mixed note as earlier losses were reversed on the back of higher oil prices and a rebound in US stocks after better than expected jobless figures.
Asia report: Markets lower despite Japan GDP growth
Markets in Asia finished lower on Thursday, once again taking their cues from Wall Street overnight as political tension around Trump’s leak of classified information to Russian officials and the investigation into links between his presidential campaign and Russia.
Asia report: Most markets lower after weak Wall Street session
Markets in Asia were mostly lower on Wednesday, taking their cue from the US overnight where retailers dragged on Wall Street as questions remained around President Donald Trump’s handling of classified information.
Asia report: Most markets higher as oil prices surge
Markets in Asia finished mostly higher on Tuesday, with higher oil prices lifting sentiment after Russia and Saudi Arabia confirmed they agreed production cuts should be extended until March 2018.
Asia report: Most markets higher after G7 meeting, Pyongyang missile launch
Markets in Asia were mostly higher on Monday, after a weekend in which trade protectionism was on the agenda as finance chiefs from the world’s seven largest economies gathered for a G7 meeting in Italy.
Asia report: Markets mostly lower ahead of G7 meeting
Markets in Asia finished mixed on Friday, taking their cue from a red Thursday overnight on Wall Street as focus turned towards the G7 finance ministers meeting in Italy.
Asia report: Most markets higher as oil prices rise, RBNZ stands pat
Markets in Asia finished mostly higher on Thursday, as traders focussed on improving oil prices and the Reserve Bank of New Zealand stood pat on its record low interest rates.
Asia report: Markets mixed as Moon wins Korean presidency
Markets in Asia finished mixed on Wednesday, with investors focusing on the inauguration of the new South Korean president Moon Jae-in, and digesting the sudden firing of FBI director James Comey in the US.
Asia report: Markets lower ad Koreans head to polls
Markets in Asia finished largely weaker on Tuesday, as investors had their eyes locked on the South Korean presidential election and the Australian federal budget, following a stellar start to the week on Monday.
Asia report: Markets move higher on Macron landslide in France
Most markets in Asia were higher on Monday, after a landslide victory for French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron in that country’s run-off election on Sunday, defeating controversial far-right candidate Marine Le Pen.
Asia report: Markets mostly lower as commodities fall
Markets in Asia were mostly lower on Friday, with an early fall in commodities prices putting the kibosh on sentiment, as traders kept their wallets shut ahead of the US nonfarm payrolls report.
Asia report: Markets finish lower as metal prices tumble
Markets in Asia finished mostly lower on Thursday, as metal prices took a dive and after the US Federal Reserve stuck to its guns overnight, remaining hawkish on the state of the American economy.
Asia report: Markets mixed on quiet day as attention turns stateside
Markets in Asia finished mixed on Wednesday, with Wall Street gains overnight setting a solid start to the session, but anxiety over the results of the Federal Reserve meeting took over towards the end of the day.