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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 25, 2026 · 2 min read
Japan's Finance Minister Katayama and US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent reaffirmed on 25 September that the undervaluation of the yen is a…
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Markets · Sep 25, 2026 · 7 min read
Tokyo carried a board thinned to four open markets on Friday. The Nikkei 225 closed 1.30 percent higher at 66,364.20, per the…
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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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Macro · Sep 24, 2026 · 2 min read
Japan's private sector grew at its slowest pace in four months in September, according to S&P Global's flash PMI, published at 00:30…
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Markets · Sep 23, 2026 · 6 min read
Asia closed split on Wednesday around a thinning holiday map. South Korea's Kospi led the board, 0.90 percent higher at 7,080.92, a…
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Markets · Sep 22, 2026 · 5 min read
Asia took Wall Street's record close and handed most of it back by the bell on Tuesday. South Korea's Kospi opened 2.20…
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Markets · Sep 21, 2026 · 5 min read
Asia opened the week higher without Japan. South Korea's Kospi rose 1.65 percent to close at 7,007.72, back above the 7,000 line…
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Macro · Sep 20, 2026 · 4 min read
Japan's consumer prices excluding fresh food rose 1.7 percent in the year to August, in figures the Statistics Bureau published on 18…
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Macro · Sep 18, 2026 · 8 min read
The Bank of Japan raised its policy rate by a quarter point, from 1.0 percent, to around 1.25 percent on 18 September,…
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Markets · Sep 18, 2026 · 4 min read
The Bank of Japan raised and the yen fell anyway. The Nikkei 225 closed 1.38 percent higher at 65,018.95 on Friday after…
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Markets · Sep 17, 2026 · 5 min read
Asia split on Thursday over the first session after the Federal Reserve’s quarter point rise: Hong Kong’s Base Rate moved to 4.25…
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Macro · Sep 17, 2026 · 3 min read
Japan ran a trade deficit of 1,105.6 billion yen in August, up from 294.1 billion yen a year earlier, the Ministry of…
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Markets · Sep 16, 2026 · 5 min read
Every index on our Asia board except one rose on Wednesday, with Korea's Kospi the day's best at 1.37 percent higher and…
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Macro · Sep 16, 2026 · 3 min read
Japan imported 30.9 percent less petroleum by volume from the Middle East in August than a year earlier and paid 3.7 percent…
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Markets · Sep 15, 2026 · 5 min read
Every index on our Asia board fell on Tuesday, with Singapore's Straits Times the worst at 1.39 percent and Japan's Nikkei 225…
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Markets · Sep 14, 2026 · 7 min read
Asia's chip heavy markets fell on Monday after the leaders of rival artificial intelligence laboratories united behind a call to slow the…
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Macro · Sep 14, 2026 · 4 min read
The Bank of Japan held 644.27 trillion yen of assets on 10 September, the last account it published before its policy meeting…
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Markets · Sep 11, 2026 · 5 min read
Asia Pacific equities closed broadly lower on Friday, with the technology heavy Japanese and South Korean markets leading the retreat, as a…
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Markets · Sep 10, 2026 · 3 min read
Asian equity markets were mostly lower on Thursday, tracking Wall Street’s overnight decline as Brent crude held above 100 dollars a barrel,…
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Markets · Sep 9, 2026 · 4 min read
Asian equity markets split on Wednesday as crude oil extended its rally, with Brent crude topping 100 dollars a barrel in Asian…
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Markets · Sep 8, 2026 · 6 min read
Asia fell on Tuesday as oil moved toward 100 dollars a barrel. Japan's Nikkei 225 lost 1,130.51 points, or 1.70 percent, to…
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Macro · Sep 8, 2026 · 4 min read
Japan’s economy grew faster in the second quarter than first estimated, handing the Bank of Japan a firmer footing 9 days before…
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Markets · Sep 7, 2026 · 5 min read
Asia rose on Monday with Wall Street closed for Labor Day. South Korea's Kospi rose 308.18 points, or 4.61 percent, to 6,995.39,…
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Markets · Sep 4, 2026 · 4 min read
Asia bought Wall Street's relief on Friday. 7 of the 10 benchmarks in this wrap closed higher, on our count, led by…
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Markets · Sep 3, 2026 · 5 min read
Asian equities steadied on Thursday after Wednesday's rout, with 6 of the 10 benchmarks in this wrap closing higher and the gap…
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Macro · Sep 3, 2026 · 3 min read
Japan's services sector expanded at its fastest pace since March 2026, with the S&P Global Japan Services PMI rising to 52.5 in…
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Markets · Sep 2, 2026 · 10 min read
Asian equity markets fell almost without exception on Wednesday 2 September 2026. Of the 10 gauges tracked here, covering 8 markets, 9…
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Macro · Sep 1, 2026 · 5 min read
Japan's benchmark 10-year government bond yield hit 3 percent on Tuesday, September 1, 2026, the first time it has traded at that…
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Markets · Sep 1, 2026 · 11 min read
Taiwan's Taiex rose 1.78 percent to close at 46,948.72, its highest finish since 1 July and the day's high, as investors chased…
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Markets · Aug 31, 2026 · 7 min read
Oil prices extended their weekend surge into the Asian session on Monday, with West Texas Intermediate up 3.74 percent, on our calculation,…
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Macro · Aug 28, 2026 · 4 min read
Japan's trade surplus for the first ten days of August 2026 fell 50.0 percent year on year to 217.3 billion yen, according…
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Markets · Aug 28, 2026 · 6 min read
The Kospi fell 1.79 percent to 6,788.88 on Friday, the steepest decline on a board where 7 of the 10 Asian benchmarks…
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Markets · Aug 27, 2026 · 6 min read
South Korea led Asian equities higher on Thursday as Nvidia's stronger than expected results lifted chip stocks across the region at the…
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Asia split on Monday, with five of the nine indices that traded closing higher. Seoul’s Kospi led the fallers, down 1.46 percent at 5,469.47, while India’s Nifty 50 rose 0.68 percent and Hong Kong’s Hang Seng added 0.51 percent. Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 fell for a third straight session, and Taipei did not trade on the…
Shenzhen’s component index rose 2.79 percent on Friday to snap three straight declines, leading a China rebound a day after all ten of the indices we track closed lower. Shanghai added 0.89 percent and Hong Kong’s Hang Seng 0.69 percent, while Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 slipped a second day after September inflation firmed. Taipei’s market did…
Japan’s consumer prices excluding fresh food rose 2.1 percent in September from a year earlier, up from 1.7 percent in August, the Statistics Bureau of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications reported on 23 October. That is the fastest pace of 2026, on our count. The headline index, at 102.2 on the new 2025…
Seoul’s Kospi fell 3.52 percent on Thursday as chip shares gave back Wednesday’s rebound, the deepest decline on a day when all ten of the indices we track closed lower. Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 lost 2.65 percent and finished at its low of the day. The Bank of Korea kept its policy rate at 3 percent…
South Korea’s Kospi rebounded 3.29 percent on Wednesday as chip shares rallied, reversing most of Tuesday’s slide in a single session. Six of the panel’s ten indices closed higher. China’s markets and Hong Kong closed lower, and India slipped on its return from a holiday. Brent crude traded 1.27 percent higher at 110.17 dollars a…
Japan’s exports rose 16.7 percent in September from a year earlier to 10.97 trillion yen, equivalent to 69.4 billion dollars. The Ministry of Finance released the provisional figures at 23:50 GMT on 20 October. Imports grew faster. They rose 18.9 percent to 11.51 trillion yen. The trade deficit came to 536.6 billion yen, 93.2 percent…
South Korea led Asia lower on Tuesday as the artificial-intelligence trade turned again. The Kospi dropped 3.73 percent to 5,552.74, more than unwinding its two-session rebound, with SK hynix down 4.23 percent. Hong Kong returned from its holiday 1.32 percent lower against Friday’s close, and Shanghai’s 0.12 percent rise was the only gain among the…
South Korea’s Kospi closed 1.76 percent higher at 5,768.01 in a second straight gain, the strongest move of Monday’s Asian session. China’s gross domestic product grew 4.5 percent in the third quarter from a year earlier, quickening from the second quarter’s 4.3 percent. Five of the nine indices rose; India’s Nifty 50 fell 1.11 percent…
Asia snapped its rout on Friday: nine of the ten markets rose, with Seoul’s Kospi rebounding 2.05 percent from Thursday’s circuit-breaker plunge and Tokyo’s Nikkei up 1.39 percent after six straight declines, while Shenzhen’s component index slipped 0.12 percent for a fifth session, the only decline on the board. India’s Nifty 50 added 0.65 percent…
Nine of ten Asian indices fell on Thursday as Wednesday’s hot US inflation print reached the region’s chipmakers: Seoul’s Kospi dived 7.57 percent through a circuit breaker to a six-month low in a seventh straight decline, Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 lost 4.90 percent in a sixth, and India’s Nifty 50 rose 1.66 percent as the day’s…