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Equity Alert: Asian indices open lower on subdued cues from Wall Street

 

MUMBAI--0820 IST--Most equity indices in Asia were down in early trade Friday, tracking overnight subdued cues from Wall Street. Japan's Nikkei 225 and broader Topix were the major drags among all indices. The Nikkei 225 fell after closing with gains for the previous three straight sessions. South Korea's KOSPI and Australia's SP/ ASX 200 indices opened higher.

 

Japan's Nikkei 225 and broader Topix were down over 1%. "A weaker-than-expected spending data underscored the scourge of inflation as bets grew that the Bank of Japan would hike interest rates," Reuters reported. The yield on the Japanese 10-year government bond rose to 1.94%, the highest since July 2007, CNBC reported, citing data from London Stock Exchange Group.

 

Shares of Soft Bank rose nearly 4%. Masayoshi Son, the bank's chief executive officer, downplayed the decision to offload the conglomerate's entire Nvidia stake, saying he "was crying" over parting with the shares, CNBC reported.  

 

Market participants will keep an eye on the upcoming Reserve Bank of India's rate decision. The US personal consumption expenditures price index for September, due later in the day, is also in focus. "Forecasts are centred on a 0.2% rise in the core measure, leaving the annual rate unchanged at 2.9%," according to a Reuters report. 

 

Following were the levels of key Asian indices at 0816 IST:

 

Index	Level	Change in %
CSI 300 Index	4540.59	(-)0.13
Hang Seng Index	25828.04	(-)0.42
Nikkei 225 Day	50452.04	(-)1.13
TOPIX FIRST SECTION	3357.77	(-)1.19
KOSPI	4054.79	0.65
FTSE Singapore Strait Times	4523.48	(-)0.26
S&P/ASX 200 Index	8630.8	0.14

 

(Arundathi A R)

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Equity Alert: US indices end mixed Thu; Dow Jones ends lower after 2-day rise

 

MUMBAI--0740 IST--The S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite ended slightly higher Thursday due to heightened hopes of a cut in key interest rates by the US Federal Reserve at its meeting next week. The Dow Jones Industrial Average index, which closed with gains in the previous two sessions, ended slightly lower. Both the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite indices ended higher for the eighth time in last nine sessions.

 

Market participants tracked the latest weekly jobless claims numbers, which showed jobless claims for the week ended Nov. 29 totalled a seasonally adjusted 191,000, down 27,000 from the prior week and below the Dow Jones consensus estimate of 220,000, CNBC reported.

 

Traders are now pricing in an 87% chance of an interest rate cut at the US Federal Reserve's meeting this month, higher than a near 67% chance a month ago, according to the CME Fedwatch tool.

 

"Everybody's waiting around to see what the Fed thinks with any of this data that they've seen come in because the last comments from Fed Chair Jerome Powell were a little bit on the hawkish side, but cuts are fully expected," Reuters reported, quoting Mike Dickson, head of research and quantitative strategies at Horizon Investments, as saying.

 

Shares of Amazon fell over 1%, which limited further advance in the S&P 500 index. The company said it was in discussions with the US Postal Service about their future relationship and was considering its options before its contract expires next year, Reuters reported.

 

Among the 11 major sectors in the S&P 500 index, the consumer staples index was the worst performer. This was led by a near 5?ll in Kroger Co. after the supermarket chain narrowed its annual sales forecast and missed quarterly sales estimates, Reuters reported. The US-based Snowflake fell nearly 12?ter the cloud data analytics company's fourth-quarter product revenue forecast was below the growth expectations of investors. 

 

Meta Platforms rose over 3% following a Bloomberg report that the Facebook parent planned cuts of up to 30% of its Metaverse budget, Reuters reported. Hormel Foods advanced almost 4% after the company forecast annual profit above estimates.

 

Following are the closing levels of US indices Thursday:

 

Index	Level	Change in %
S&P 500	6857.12	0.11
NASDAQ Composite	23505.14	0.22
Dow Jones Industrial Average	47850.94	(-)0.07

 

(Arundathi A R)

 

US$1 = INR 89.98

IST, or Indian Standard Time, is five-and-a-half hours ahead of GMT

 

Edited by Avishek Dutta

 

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