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China · 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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China · 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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Japan · 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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China · 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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China · 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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Japan · 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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China · 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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Japan · 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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China · 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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China · 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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Japan · 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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China · 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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Asia Pacific equities closed broadly lower on Friday, with the technology heavy Japanese and South Korean markets leading the retreat, as a deepening global bond selloff pushed the United States 10 year Treasury yield to its highest since October 2023 and Brent crude held above 100 dollars a barrel through the session. Japan’s Nikkei 225…
Asian equity markets were mostly lower on Thursday, tracking Wall Street’s overnight decline as Brent crude held above 100 dollars a barrel, with 7 of the 10 benchmarks on our board down and 3 modestly higher. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng was the weakest, down 1.27 percent, and Australia’s ASX 200 fell 1.03 percent, while Japan’s…
Asian equity markets split on Wednesday as crude oil extended its rally, with Brent crude topping 100 dollars a barrel in Asian trading after attacks on energy facilities in Saudi Arabia, per CNBC. South Korea’s Kospi led with a gain of 1.40 percent, carried by its chipmakers, while India’s Nifty 50 was the weakest of…
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 65,269.33, and the Topix fell 1.83 percent to 4,050.33, with the yen at 153.96 per dollar at our 10:07 GMT capture after touching 153 earlier in the session, its strongest since February, per…
Japan’s economy grew faster in the second quarter than first estimated, handing the Bank of Japan a firmer footing 9 days before a meeting at which markets widely expect it to raise rates. Revised figures the Cabinet Office released Tuesday morning in Tokyo, late Monday GMT, put annualized growth at 1.4 percent, up from the…
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, 4.61 points short of 7,000, on our calculation, as Samsung Electronics gained 5.68 percent and SK Hynix 8.26 percent, per CNBC. Japan’s Nikkei 225 added 2.12 percent to 66,399.84 with SoftBank up 11.22…
Asian equities steadied on Thursday after Wednesday’s rout, with 6 of the 10 benchmarks in this wrap closing higher and the gap between the day’s best and worst boards narrowing to 1.17 percentage points from 4.58 a day earlier, on our calculation. The session’s real moves were elsewhere: dollar/yen fell 1.43 percent to 156.43 and…
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 August from 51.2 in July, S&P Global said in a report released at 00:30 GMT on September 3, 2026. Composite Index Extends 17th Month of Expansion The Japan Composite Output Index, which combines…
Asian equity markets fell almost without exception on Wednesday 2 September 2026. Of the 10 gauges tracked here, covering 8 markets, 9 closed lower and 1 closed higher. The Kospi lost 3.99 percent, the steepest fall in the group, and the Nikkei 225 lost 2.85 percent. The Straits Times Index was the only gainer, at…
Japan’s benchmark 10-year government bond yield hit 3 percent on Tuesday, September 1, 2026, the first time it has traded at that level since September 1996, according to Reuters, which cited investor concern over inflation, fiscal health and pressure on the Bank of Japan to raise interest rates faster. CNBC independently reported the same threshold,…