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Equity Alert: Indices in Asia trade on mixed note; KOSPI down 0.5%

 

MUMBAI--0810 IST--Asian indices showed a mixed trend Tuesday, taking cues from the Wall Street. Market participants became more cautious ahead of the US Federal Reserve's decision on interest rates at its meeting, due Wednesday.

 

"The low-hanging fruit from risk management cuts is likely over and US Fed Chair (Jerome) Powell's presser is likely to convey a more cautious approach going forward regarding additional policy recalibration," Prashant Newnaha, senior Asia-Pacific rates strategist at TD Securities, said.

 

Asian chip stocks wobbled after US President Donald Trump said the US will allow Nvidia's H200 processors to be exported to China and collect a 25?e on such sales, Reuters reported. South Korea's KOSPI, which closed higher for the previous two sessions, was lower Tuesday.

 

Japan's Nikkei 225 gained in opening trade but reversed the gains. Electronics and machinery stocks in the region helped the index to gain in early trade. Japan-based Kawasaki Heavy Industries rose nearly 5%. Electronics and semiconductor company in Japan, Tokyo Electron, rose over 1%. Investors will watch out for the economic data ahead of the Bank of Japan's policy meeting next week.

 

Following were the levels of key Asian indices at 0807 IST:

 

Index	Level	Change in %
CSI 300 Index	4615.63	(-)0.13
Hang Seng Index	25598.93	(-)0.65
Nikkei 225 Day	50627.64	0.09
TOPIX FIRST SECTION	3385.48	0.03
KOSPI	4134.06	(-)0.50
FTSE Singapore Strait Times	4516.85	0.22
S&P/ASX 200 Index	8608.5	(-)0.30

 

(Arundathi A R)

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Equity Alert:  US indices end lower; S&P, Nasdaq snap four-day wining streak

 

MUMBAI--0725 IST--Benchmark equity indices in the US ended lower Monday as investors await key rate cut decisions by the US Federal Reserve in the policy meeting, due this week. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq composite indices snapped a four-day winning run.

 

Market participants priced in an over 87% chance of a 25-basis-point rate cut by the US Fed Reserve, which was higher than a 70% chance a month ago, according to CME FedWatch tool. "If you start to see rate cuts get pushed out further into [2026], then you [should] start to see, I think, more negative pressure on the market in the first half of the year," said Stephen Kolano, chief investment officer at Integrated Partners.

 

Gains in the 10-year treasury yield weighed on stock sentiment, CNBC reported. "The benchmark has moved up this month despite the likelihood that the Fed is going to cut this week as investors worried about the state of inflation in the new year and whether the central bank will be able to continue easing," according to the report.
 

Shares of US-based multinational conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway were down over 1% after the company disclosed many leadership changes ahead of Warren Buffett's departure as chief executive officer.

 

However, technology stocks in the US gained during the session. Broadcom shares jumped almost 3% following the report that Microsoft is discussing designing custom chips with the chipmaker, CNBC reported. Confluent shares surged over 29?ter IBM said that it was going to acquire the company for a deal of $11 billion, CNBC reported. Shares of Nvidia rose nearly 2% and those of Micron Technology rose over 4%.

 

In individual stocks, Paramount Skydance is launching a $108.4 billion hostile bid to buy Warner Bros Discovery garnered investor attention as it aimed to outbid Netflix, CNBC reported. Shares of Paramount Skydance rose over 9%.

 

Following are the closing levels of US indices Monday:

 

Index	Level	Change in %
S&P 500	6846.51	(-)0.35
NASDAQ Composite	23545.90	(-)0.14
Dow Jones Industrial Average	47739.32	(-)0.45

 

(Arundathi A R)

 

US$1 = INR 90.07

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

 

Edited by Vandana Hingorani

 

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