{"id":27021,"date":"2026-05-11T01:17:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T01:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/27021\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T01:17:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T01:17:11","slug":"asia-markets-today-nikkei-kospi-hang-seng-sensex-csi-300","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/27021\/","title":{"rendered":"Asia markets today: Nikkei, Kospi, Hang Seng, Sensex, CSI 300"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Korea&#8217;s Kospi opened at a fresh record Monday, leading gains in Asia-Pacific markets amid rising oil prices and escalating tensions between the U.S. and Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Investor sentiment remained cautious after President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/donald-trump\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump<\/a>&#8216;s\u00a0rejected Tehran&#8217;s latest proposal to end the war.<\/p>\n<p>Iran submitted a new proposal to U.S. negotiators focused on ending the Middle East conflict. Iran&#8217;s semi-official\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/05\/10\/tanker-crosses-strait-of-hormuz-as-us-awaits-iran-response-.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tasnim news agency said<\/a> that the counteroffer called for an end to the war on all fronts and the lifting of sanctions on Tehran, citing an informed source.<\/p>\n<p>However, Trump said he\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/116552102914488206\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">did not like<\/a>\u00a0Iran&#8217;s response and called it &#8220;TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE!&#8221; in a Truth Social Post. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/benjamin-netanyahu\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Benjamin Netanyahu<\/a>\u00a0said Sunday that the war with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/05\/10\/tanker-crosses-strait-of-hormuz-as-us-awaits-iran-response-.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Iran<\/a>\u00a0is &#8220;not over,&#8221; as the U.S. and Israel still aim to curb Tehran&#8217;s nuclear ambitions.<\/p>\n<p>Netanyahu&#8217;s comments come ahead of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/donald-trump\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trump<\/a>&#8216;s trip to China later this week, where he&#8217;s expected to meet with Chinese President\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/xi-jinping\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Xi Jinping<\/a>. The war and the subsequent closure of the Strait of Hormuz by Iran have spiked global energy costs and sharply raised gas prices in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/@CL.1\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">West Texas Intermediate<\/a>\u00a0futures for June was 3.39% higher at $98.65 per barrel as of 8:06 p.m. ET.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/@LCO.1\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brent crude<\/a>\u00a0futures for July rose 3.37% to $104.66 per barrel.<\/p>\n<p>South Korea&#8217;s Kospi opened 3.67% to a fresh record, while the small-cap Kosdaq was marginally higher. Japan&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/.N225\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nikkei 225<\/a>\u00a0added 0.81%, while the Topix gained 0.32%. <\/p>\n<p>Australia&#8217;s S&amp;P\/ASX 200 was 0.71% lower.<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/.HSI\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hang Seng index<\/a>\u00a0futures were at 26,250, lower than the index&#8217;s last close of 26,393.71.<\/p>\n<p>Stock Chart IconStock chart icon<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static-redesign.cnbcfm.com\/dist\/a54b41835a8b60db28c2.svg\" class=\"Collapsible-dismissButton\" alt=\"hide content\"\/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/@DJ.1\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Futures<\/a>\u00a0tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average slid 143 points, or 0.3%.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/@SP.1\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">S&amp;P 500 futures<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/@ND.1\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nasdaq 100 futures<\/a>\u00a0each also lost 0.3%.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday&#8217;s moves come after the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/.SPX\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">S&amp;P 500<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/.IXIC\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nasdaq Composite<\/a>\u00a0rallied more than 2% and 4%, respectively, last week. Both indexes recorded their sixth-straight winning weeks \u2014 a first for each since 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/.DJI\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dow<\/a>\u00a0rose 0.2% for the week, notching its fifth week of gains out of the last six.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CNBC&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/alex-harring\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Harring<\/a> and Garrett Downs contributed to this report.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Choose CNBC as your preferred source on Google and never miss a moment from the most trusted name in business news.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"South Korea&#8217;s Kospi opened at a fresh record Monday, leading gains in Asia-Pacific markets amid rising oil prices&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27022,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[14801,14802,666,16547,663,16549,2455,10,34,5100,664,4805,17,38,16,5673,130,668,8,4824,19,261,1307,12,15,9,16548,669,665,20,2457,1540,656,284,7,13,13790,2195,2456],"class_list":{"0":"post-27021","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-top-stories","8":"tag-lco26n","9":"tag-lco26v","10":"tag-asia-economy","11":"tag-asia-news","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-australian-dollar-us-dollar-fx-spot-rate","14":"tag-breaking-news-asia","15":"tag-breaking-news-markets","16":"tag-business-news","17":"tag-central-banking","18":"tag-chicago","19":"tag-currency-markets","20":"tag-donald-j-trump","21":"tag-donald-trump","22":"tag-dow-jones-industrial-average","23":"tag-dxy-us-dollar-currency-index","24":"tag-foreign-policy","25":"tag-hang-seng-index","26":"tag-headlines","27":"tag-interest-rates","28":"tag-iran","29":"tag-japan","30":"tag-kospi-index","31":"tag-markets","32":"tag-nasdaq-composite","33":"tag-news","34":"tag-nikkei-225","35":"tag-nikkei-225-index","36":"tag-osaka","37":"tag-sp-500-index","38":"tag-sp-asx-200","39":"tag-shanghai","40":"tag-south-korea","41":"tag-tehran","42":"tag-top-stories","43":"tag-united-states","44":"tag-usd-jpy","45":"tag-world-economy","46":"tag-world-markets"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}