{"id":289236,"date":"2025-07-25T00:28:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T00:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/289236\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T00:28:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T00:28:15","slug":"asia-stock-market-live-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/289236\/","title":{"rendered":"Asia stock market live updates"},"content":{"rendered":"

Asia markets start Friday trading in the red<\/p>\n

Asia markets started the trading day lower.<\/p>\n

Japan’s benchmark\u00a0Nikkei 225<\/a>\u00a0fell 0.24%, while the Topix lost 0.55%. <\/p>\n

South Korea’s Kospi<\/a> was flat and the small-cap Kosdaq slipped 0.48%.<\/p>\n

Australia’s\u00a0S&P\/ASX 200<\/a> lost 0.41%.<\/p>\n

\u2014Lee Ying Shan<\/p>\n

Asia markets set to open lower<\/p>\n

Good morning from Singapore. Asia markets were set for a muted open Friday.<\/p>\n

Japan’s benchmark\u00a0Nikkei 225<\/a>\u00a0was set to start the trading day lower, with the futures contract in Chicago at 41,740 and its counterpart in Osaka at 41,640, against the index’s last close at 41,826.34.<\/p>\n

Futures for Hong Kong’s\u00a0Hang Seng index<\/a>\u00a0stood at 25,505, pointing to a weaker open compared with the HSI’s last close of 25,667.18.<\/p>\n

Australia’s\u00a0S&P\/ASX 200<\/a>\u00a0was also on track to start the day lower with futures tied to the benchmark at 8,637, compared with its last close of 8,709.4.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Lee Ying Shan<\/p>\n

S&P 500, Nasdaq close higher Thursday<\/p>\n

The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite ended Thursday’s session with fresh record closes after scoring new all-time intraday highs earlier in the trading day.<\/p>\n

The broad market index closed 0.07% higher to end at 6,363.35, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq inched up 0.18% to finish at 21,057.96.<\/p>\n

However, the blue-chip Dow Jones Industrial Average pulled back 316.38 points, or 0.7%, to settle at 44,693.91.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Sean Conlon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Asia markets start Friday trading in the red Asia markets started the trading day lower. Japan’s benchmark\u00a0Nikkei 225\u00a0fell…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3091],"tags":[4959,51,3085,2441,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-289236","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-markets","8":"tag-breaking-news-markets","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-business-news","11":"tag-markets","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114911046005795323","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289236","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=289236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}