{"id":337167,"date":"2025-08-12T01:17:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T01:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/337167\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T01:17:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T01:17:13","slug":"asia-stock-markets-today-live-updates-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/337167\/","title":{"rendered":"Asia stock markets today: live updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japan&#8217;s Nikkei 225 hits record high<\/p>\n<p>Japan&#8217;s blue-chip\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/.N225\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nikkei\u00a0225<\/a> index hit an all-time high of 42,629.17 on Tuesday, led by energy, technology, financials and utilities sectors.<\/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>Nikkei 225<\/p>\n<p>Asia-Pacific markets open higher<\/p>\n<p>Asia-Pacific markets opened higher Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Japan&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/.N225\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nikkei 225<\/a> benchmark rose 1.26%, while the broader Topix index added 0.74%, as of 8:07 a.m. Singapore time (8:07 p.m. ET Monday).<\/p>\n<p>In South Korea, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/.KS11\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kospi<\/a>\u00a0index added 0.66%, while the small-cap Kosdaq increased by 0.4%.<\/p>\n<p>Over in Australia, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/.AXJO\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">S&amp;P\/ASX 200<\/a> benchmark was flat.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Amala Balakrishner<\/p>\n<p>U.S. futures mostly move up in early Asia hoursHere are the opening calls for the day <\/p>\n<p>Good morning from Singapore.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S.-China trade truce extension overnight has allowed the world&#8217;s largest economies more room to negotiate a deal. <\/p>\n<p>Investors, meanwhile, await the Australian central bank&#8217;s rate decision. The Reserve Bank of Australia is expected to slash cash rates to 3.6% from 3.85% at the close of its two-day policy meeting later in the day.<\/p>\n<p>Australia&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/.AXJO\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">S&amp;P\/ASX 200<\/a>\u00a0was set to start the day lower with futures tied to the benchmark at 8,783, compared with the index&#8217;s Monday close of 8,844.80.<\/p>\n<p>Japan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/.N225\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nikkei 225<\/a>\u00a0was set to open higher,<strong> <\/strong>with the futures contract in Chicago at 42,295 while its counterpart in Osaka last traded at 42,270, against the index&#8217;s last close of 41,820.48.<\/p>\n<p>Futures for Hong Kong&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/.HSI\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hang Seng index<\/a>\u00a0stood at 24,765, pointing to a weaker open compared with the HSI&#8217;s last close of 24,906.81.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Amala Balakrishner<\/p>\n<p>A September rate cut from the Fed would be a risky move, BofA says<\/p>\n<p>Bank of America thinks the Federal Reserve may want to hold off on cutting interest rates at the end of its next FOMC meeting in the wake of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/08\/01\/jobs-report-july-2025.html#:~:text=U.S.%20added%20just%2073%2C000%20jobs%20in%20July%20and%20numbers,months%20were%20revised%20much%20lower&amp;text=Nonfarm%20payrolls%20growth%20totaled%2073%2C000,for%20a%20gain%20of%20100%2C000.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">latest jobs report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We think those FOMC members that argue for cuts don&#8217;t put enough weight on the labor supply shock or the fact that inflation is stuck above target, with risks of a larger and more persistent shock after the latest tariff hikes,&#8221; economist Claudio Irigoyen wrote on Monday. &#8220;Cutting in September may risk starting the easing cycle without evidence that inflation has peaked.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He also said that he still doesn&#8217;t expect the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates this year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The downward revision to nonfarm payrolls increases the probability of what we view as the most likely alternate scenario: &#8216;bad cuts,&#8217; due to deterioration in the labor market,&#8221; Irigoyen wrote. &#8220;We view the combination of policies to be mildly stagflationary, with significant uncertainty regarding the size and timing of the impact on inflation and growth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sean Conlon<\/p>\n<p>Stocks fall across the board<\/p>\n<p>Stocks fell across the board to end Monday&#8217;s session.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/.DJI\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dow Jones Industrial Average<\/a> lost 200.52 points, or 0.45%, and closed at 43,975.09. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/.SPX\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">S&amp;P 500<\/a> slipped 0.25% to end at 6,373.45, while the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/.IXIC\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nasdaq Composite<\/a> shed 0.3% to settle at 21,385.40.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Lisa Kailai Han<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s Nikkei 225 hits record high Japan&#8217;s blue-chip\u00a0Nikkei\u00a0225 index hit an all-time high of 42,629.17 on Tuesday, led&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3091],"tags":[21351,15193,186,21344,21350,4959,51,3085,7989,10294,4750,21346,21342,21347,2441,3742,21349,8572,16678,3741,21348,10741,21341,16,15,21345,2726,21343],"class_list":{"0":"post-337167","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-markets","8":"tag-arm-holdings-plc","9":"tag-asia-economy","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-australian-dollar-us-dollar-fx-spot-rate","12":"tag-breaking-news-asia","13":"tag-breaking-news-markets","14":"tag-business","15":"tag-business-news","16":"tag-dow-jones-industrial-average","17":"tag-dxy-us-dollar-currency-index","18":"tag-economic-events","19":"tag-hang-seng-index","20":"tag-ice-brent-crude-apr23","21":"tag-kospi-index","22":"tag-markets","23":"tag-nasdaq-composite","24":"tag-nikkei-225-index","25":"tag-nvidia-corp","26":"tag-prices","27":"tag-sp-500-index","28":"tag-sp-asx-200","29":"tag-shanghai","30":"tag-shenzhen-component-index","31":"tag-uk","32":"tag-united-kingdom","33":"tag-usd-jpy","34":"tag-world-markets","35":"tag-wti-crude-mar23"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337167","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=337167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}