{"id":159680,"date":"2025-08-19T23:59:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T23:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/159680\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T23:59:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T23:59:10","slug":"china-lpr-japan-trade-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/159680\/","title":{"rendered":"China LPR, Japan trade data"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dukai Photographer | Moment | Getty Images<\/p>\n

Asia-Pacific markets were poised to open lower Wednesday, tracking Wall Street declines overnight,\u00a0with investors awaiting a slew of economic data from the region.<\/p>\n

Japan’s Nikkei 225<\/a>\u00a0was set to open lower, with the futures contract in Chicago at 43,385 while its counterpart in Osaka last traded at 43,350, against the index’s last close of 43,546.29.<\/p>\n

Futures for Hong Kong’s\u00a0Hang Seng index<\/a>\u00a0stood at 24,977, pointing to a weaker open compared with the HSI’s last close of 25,122.9.<\/p>\n

Australia’s\u00a0S&P\/ASX 200<\/a>\u00a0was set to start the day lower, with futures tied to the benchmark at 8,875 compared with the index’s last close of 8,896.2.<\/p>\n

Investors await China’s loan prime rate decision today, as well as Japan trade data.<\/p>\n

Overnight stateside, the S&P 500 pulled back, weighed down by Nvidia shares and a broad decline in technology stocks. The broad market\u00a0S&P 500<\/a>\u00a0lost 0.59% and closed at 6,411.37, while the\u00a0Nasdaq Composite<\/a>\u00a0fell 1.46% to settle at 21,314.95.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Dow Jones Industrial Average<\/a>\u00a0added 10.45 points, or 0.02%, and ended at 44,922.27. The 30-stock index touched a fresh record high during the session.<\/p>\n

\u2014CNBC’s Pia Singh and Yun Li contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dukai Photographer | Moment | Getty Images Asia-Pacific markets were poised to open lower Wednesday, tracking Wall Street…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":146736,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[133,64,81,960,69,170,142,135,15242,273,67,132,68,3656],"class_list":{"0":"post-159680","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-chicago","12":"tag-donald-trump","13":"tag-japan","14":"tag-jerome-powell","15":"tag-markets","16":"tag-osaka","17":"tag-ukraine","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115058151435494343","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}