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Markets · Oct 12, 2026 · 5 min read
Five of the eight Asian indices open on Monday closed lower, led by Seoul, where the Kospi plunged 3.65 percent in a…
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Markets · Oct 9, 2026 · 5 min read
Six of the eight Asian indices that traded on our panel closed higher on Friday, with Seoul and Taipei shut for public…
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Markets · Oct 8, 2026 · 4 min read
All ten Asian indices on our panel closed lower on Thursday, the first session with Shanghai and Shenzhen back from the National…
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Macro · Oct 7, 2026 · 2 min read
The Reserve Bank of India's Monetary Policy Committee voted unanimously on 7 October to raise the policy repo rate by 25 basis…
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Markets · Oct 7, 2026 · 4 min read
All eight Asian indices on our panel closed lower on Wednesday, led by Seoul, where the Kospi fell 1.98 percent to 6,803.90…
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Markets · Oct 6, 2026 · 5 min read
The Nikkei 225 rose 1.05 percent to 70,683.98 on Tuesday, its first close above the 70,000 line since 1 July, and every…
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Markets · Oct 5, 2026 · 5 min read
Every board open on our Monday set closed higher, with Taipei's weighted index jumping 2.55 percent to 49,712.04 and the Nikkei 225…
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Markets · Oct 1, 2026 · 6 min read
The Nikkei 225 rose 3.30 percent, or 2,203.00 points, to 68,956.72 on Thursday, the board's strongest row by a wide margin, with…
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Markets · Sep 30, 2026 · 5 min read
Tokyo led Asia's board higher on the final session of September. The Nikkei 225 closed 1.94 percent higher at 66,753.72 and the…
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Markets · Sep 29, 2026 · 5 min read
Asia split on Tuesday with the selling concentrated in Tokyo's broader benchmark: the Topix fell 1.72 percent to 4,041.13 against the Nikkei…
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Markets · Sep 28, 2026 · 5 min read
Asia opened the week lower after Washington rejected Tehran's conditional offer to reopen the Strait of Hormuz: Shenzhen's component index fell 3.44…
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Markets · Sep 24, 2026 · 6 min read
Tokyo came back from its three day holiday with the Nikkei 225 the board's only riser. The index closed 0.76 percent higher…
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Five of the eight Asian indices open on Monday closed lower, led by Seoul, where the Kospi plunged 3.65 percent in a fourth straight decline. Sydney’s S&P/ASX 200 rose 0.76 percent in the day’s strongest gain, Singapore and Hong Kong edged higher, and Tokyo’s equity markets sat the session out for the Sports Day holiday….
Six of the eight Asian indices that traded on our panel closed higher on Friday, with Seoul and Taipei shut for public holidays. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng led the gainers, up 1.79 percent, and Mumbai’s Nifty 50 added 1.30 percent as Tata Consultancy Services opened the Indian IT earnings season. Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 slipped 0.02…
All ten Asian indices on our panel closed lower on Thursday, the first session with Shanghai and Shenzhen back from the National Day holiday. Singapore’s Straits Times fell 3.49 percent in the deepest decline, and Seoul’s Kospi lost 2.62 percent in a third straight fall. Shanghai returned 0.79 percent lower and Shenzhen 2.07 percent, measured…
The Reserve Bank of India’s Monetary Policy Committee voted unanimously on 7 October to raise the policy repo rate by 25 basis points to 5.50 percent, citing an inflation outlook it called not benign. The stance moved to calibrated tightening on a 4 to 2 vote, with Nagesh Kumar and Ram Singh preferring to keep…
All eight Asian indices on our panel closed lower on Wednesday, led by Seoul, where the Kospi fell 1.98 percent to 6,803.90 for a second straight decline. Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 lost 0.92 percent to 70,035.71, holding just above the 70,000 line, and Singapore’s Straits Times fell 1.63 percent. India’s Nifty 50 closed 0.76 percent lower…
The Nikkei 225 rose 1.05 percent to 70,683.98 on Tuesday, its first close above the 70,000 line since 1 July, and every open board on our set but Seoul’s ended higher, with Hong Kong’s Hang Seng up 1.00 percent and India’s Nifty 50 closing 0.98 percent higher at 22,776.10 on the National Stock Exchange’s own…
Every board open on our Monday set closed higher, with Taipei’s weighted index jumping 2.55 percent to 49,712.04 and the Nikkei 225 rising 2.40 percent to 69,946.86, a close the network’s own report carried to the digit. Tokyo’s broader Topix added 1.33 percent, India’s Nifty 50 rose 0.60 percent on the National Stock Exchange’s own…
The Nikkei 225 rose 3.30 percent, or 2,203.00 points, to 68,956.72 on Thursday, the board’s strongest row by a wide margin, with the network’s closing report carrying the rally as led by technology and electronics stocks. Seoul’s Kospi followed at 1.95 percent higher, Taipei’s weighted index and Tokyo’s broader Topix added less than one percent…
Tokyo led Asia’s board higher on the final session of September. The Nikkei 225 closed 1.94 percent higher at 66,753.72 and the Topix added 1.67 percent to 4,108.65, the day’s two strongest rows, while China’s official manufacturing purchasing managers’ index rose to 50.1 in September from August’s 49.8, back above the 50 line that separates…
Asia split on Tuesday with the selling concentrated in Tokyo’s broader benchmark: the Topix fell 1.72 percent to 4,041.13 against the Nikkei 225’s 0.60 percent decline, Taipei’s Taiex returned from two shut sessions 0.82 percent lower, and the mainland’s two boards and Sydney took the day’s only gains, three rows higher against seven lower. Brent…