A Chinese flag flies high over The Bund.<\/p>\n
Liu Liqun | Corbis Documentary | Getty Images<\/p>\n
Asia-Pacific markets fell Monday as China’s central bank held rates at a time when the yuan has come under pressure due to Beijing-Washington trade tensions.<\/p>\n
Japan’s benchmark\u00a0Nikkei 225<\/a>\u00a0fell 1.14%, while the broader Topix index declined 1.15%.<\/p>\n In South Korea, the\u00a0Kospi<\/a>\u00a0index edged down 0.1% while the small-cap Kosdaq dropped 0.15% in choppy trade.<\/p>\n Mainland China’s\u00a0CSI 300<\/a>\u00a0started the day flat after the People’s Bank of China kept its key loan prime rates unchanged<\/a> at 3.10% for 1-year loan maturities and 3.60% for 5-year loan maturities, in line with the expectations of economists polled by Reuters.<\/p>\n Australian and Hong Kong markets were closed for the Easter holiday.<\/p>\n \u2014 CNBC’s Sean Conlon contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Chinese flag flies high over The Bund. Liu Liqun | Corbis Documentary | Getty Images Asia-Pacific markets…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37094,"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-37093","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":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114373413602762913","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37093","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=37093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}