View of the Skytree from Ueno and Asakusa in Tokyo<\/p>\n
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Asia-Pacific markets traded mixed Wednesday, as escalating tensions between Israel and Iran weigh on investor sentiment.<\/p>\n
Adding fuel to fire, U.S. President Donald Trump<\/a> is mulling a military strike on Iran<\/a>, while demanding the country’s leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei “surrender,” former and current U.S. officials told NBC News.<\/p>\n Trump, in a post on Truth Social, demanded “UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER!” by Iran.<\/p>\n “Comments from President Trump have triggered speculation that the U.S. will get more involved in the conflict between Iran and Israel that escalated significantly five days ago,” ANZ analysts wrote in a note.<\/p>\n Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225<\/a> added 0.47%, and the Topix rose 0.4%. South Korea’s Kospi climbed 0.7% and the small-cap Kosdaq was 0.66% higher.<\/p>\n Japan exports in May declined 1.7% year on year, softer than the 3.8% decline expected by Reuters. The data comes a day after the Bank of Japan highlighted in its monetary policy statement<\/a> that the country’s growth was likely to “moderate” on the back of factors like trade, which would lead to a slowdown in overseas economies and a decline in domestic corporate profits.<\/p>\n Australia’s\u00a0S&P\/ASX 200<\/a> was flat.<\/p>\n Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index<\/a> lost 0.87%, and mainland China’s CSI 300 was up 0.18%.<\/p>\n U.S. stock futures inched lower as traders brace for the Federal Reserve’s rate decision due Wednesday afternoon stateside.<\/p>\n Overnight on Wall Street, all three major averages ended the trading day lower. the Dow Jones Industrial Average<\/a>\u00a0lost 299.29 points, or 0.70%, to close at 42,215.80. The\u00a0S&P 500<\/a>\u00a0shed 0.84% to end at 5,982.72, while the\u00a0Nasdaq Composite<\/a>\u00a0fell 0.91% and settled at 19,521.09.<\/p>\n \u2014 CNBC’s Sean Conlon and Brian Evans contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"View of the Skytree from Ueno and Asakusa in Tokyo Jackal Pan | Moment | Getty Images Asia-Pacific…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99681,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3091],"tags":[14533,4959,51,3085,3686,32,805,774,837,2122,2441,21349,21348,16,15,49],"class_list":{"0":"post-193358","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-markets","8":"tag-ali-khamenei","9":"tag-breaking-news-markets","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-business-news","12":"tag-donald-j-trump","13":"tag-donald-trump","14":"tag-foreign-policy","15":"tag-iran","16":"tag-israel","17":"tag-japan","18":"tag-markets","19":"tag-nikkei-225-index","20":"tag-sp-asx-200","21":"tag-uk","22":"tag-united-kingdom","23":"tag-united-states"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114702243767674404","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}