Asia slips on weaker Wall St, dollar marks time before Yellen : 25.08.2016
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Australian stocks fell 0.1 percent, South Korea's Kospi shed 0.2 percent and Japan's Nikkei nudged down 0.3 percent.
Asian stocks slipped on Thursday, taking their cue from an overnight drop on Wall Street, while the dollar marked time ahead of Friday's speech by Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen at the global central bankers' meeting.
MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan lost 0.3 percent. Australian stocks fell 0.1 percent, South Korea's Kospi shed 0.2 percent and Japan's Nikkei nudged down 0.3 percent. Wall Street retreated on Wednesday, pulled lower by weakness in the materials and healthcare sectors, with the Dow losing 0.4 percent and S&P 500 falling 0.5 percent.
Global markets awaited Yellen's speech in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, on Friday for insight on the US monetary policy outlook.
Recent hawkish comments from some Fed officials, including Vice Chairman Stanley Fischer, have raised expectations that Yellen would express similar views. "As everyone who's anyone in central banking and economic academia gather for two days of discussion, there will be a variety of speeches and comments by senior officials.
Some of these may move the markets," wrote Marshall Gittler, head of investment research at FXPrimus. "The one everyone is waiting for is of course tomorrow's presentation by Fed Chair Janet Yellen, but other people may have something important to say before then too."
The dollar has swayed in both directions over the past week as expectations for a near-term Fed rate hike have ebbed and flowed. The greenback was little changed at 100.540 yen. The euro was flat at USD 1.1262 after edging down 0.4 percent overnight.
Sterling traded at USD 1.3240, not far off a three-week high of USD 1.3273 hit on Wednesday as speculators further cut bets against the currency after data indicated the economy was holding up surprisingly well after the Brexit vote.
In commodities, crude oil prices remained under pressure after sliding sharply on Wednesday. US crude CLc1 was down a shade at USD 46.76 a barrel following a roughly 3 percent drop overnight after an unexpectedly large inventory build in the world's biggest oil consumer renewed worries about oversupply.
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Asian Stock Markets
| Nikkei 225 | 16555.11 | -42.19 | Straits Times | 2873.58 | 4.01 |
| Hang Seng | 22805.21 | -15.57 | Taiwan Index | 9093.52 | 76.14 |
| KOSPI | 2043.53 | -0.23 | Shanghai Comp | 3059.76 | -26.12 |
Asian stocks slipped on Thursday, taking their cue from an overnight drop on Wall Street, while the dollar marked time ahead of Friday's speech by Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen at the global central bankers' meeting.
MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan lost 0.3 percent. Australian stocks fell 0.1 percent, South Korea's Kospi shed 0.2 percent and Japan's Nikkei nudged down 0.3 percent. Wall Street retreated on Wednesday, pulled lower by weakness in the materials and healthcare sectors, with the Dow losing 0.4 percent and S&P 500 falling 0.5 percent.
Global markets awaited Yellen's speech in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, on Friday for insight on the US monetary policy outlook.
Recent hawkish comments from some Fed officials, including Vice Chairman Stanley Fischer, have raised expectations that Yellen would express similar views. "As everyone who's anyone in central banking and economic academia gather for two days of discussion, there will be a variety of speeches and comments by senior officials.
Some of these may move the markets," wrote Marshall Gittler, head of investment research at FXPrimus. "The one everyone is waiting for is of course tomorrow's presentation by Fed Chair Janet Yellen, but other people may have something important to say before then too."
The dollar has swayed in both directions over the past week as expectations for a near-term Fed rate hike have ebbed and flowed. The greenback was little changed at 100.540 yen. The euro was flat at USD 1.1262 after edging down 0.4 percent overnight.
Sterling traded at USD 1.3240, not far off a three-week high of USD 1.3273 hit on Wednesday as speculators further cut bets against the currency after data indicated the economy was holding up surprisingly well after the Brexit vote.
In commodities, crude oil prices remained under pressure after sliding sharply on Wednesday. US crude CLc1 was down a shade at USD 46.76 a barrel following a roughly 3 percent drop overnight after an unexpectedly large inventory build in the world's biggest oil consumer renewed worries about oversupply.
