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Markets · Jun 17, 2026 · 4 min read
The Bank of Japan raised its policy interest rate to around 1.0% from 0.75% on 16 June 2026, lifting borrowing costs to…
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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…
Consumer prices in Tokyo’s 23 wards rose 2.7 percent from a year earlier in September, up from 1.9 percent in August, according to preliminary mid-month figures the Statistics Bureau of Japan published on 2 October. The index excluding fresh food also rose 2.7 percent, up from 1.8 percent. The measure excluding both fresh food and…
Hong Kong set the tone for a thinned out Friday board. The Hang Seng returned from Thursday’s holiday and fell 2.60 percent to 23,972.29, the region’s deepest fall, measured against Wednesday’s close across a single shut session, while the Kospi rose 0.46 percent to 7,003.74 to finish above the 7,000 line and Sydney led the…
Japan’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate rose 0.1 point to 2.5 percent in August, the Statistics Bureau said on 2 October, while the number of employees rose by 390,000 from a year earlier to 62.13 million, the 54th straight month of annual increase. Total employment rose 140,000 from a year earlier to 68.49 million, the first…
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…
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 percent, Seoul’s Kospi gave up 2.70 percent in its first session since the Chuseok holidays, and six of the nine boards that traded closed in the red while Hong Kong, Singapore and Sydney…