TOKYO (AP) \u2014 Global shares were mostly lower Wednesday on selling of technology shares following a lackluster day on Wall Street.<\/p>\n
France’s CAC 40 fell 0.5% in early trading to 8,213.90. The German DAX dipped 0.3% to 24,251.58. Britain’s FTSE 100 climbed 0.6% to 9,487.52.<\/p>\n
The futures for the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average were little changed. On Tuesday, the S&P 500 was nearly flat and the Dow gained 0.5%. The Nasdaq composite index lost 0.2%.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
In Asian trading, Chinese markets retreated after U.S. President Donald Trump cast doubt on whether or not he will meet with Chinese leader Xi Jinping later this month.<\/p>\n
\u201cMaybe it won’t happen, maybe it won’t happen,\u201d he said while hosting a lunch<\/a> for Republican Party senators at the White House.<\/p>\n However, Trump also said he was expecting \u201cto do well\u201d in negotiations with China.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m going to see President Xi in two weeks. … We\u2019re going to meet in South Korea,<\/a> \u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019re going to talk about a lot of things they want to discuss.\u201d<\/p>\n Trump is traveling in the next several days to Japan and South Korea, in part, to finalize the terms of investments from those countries as part of an agreement to minimize the tariff rates Trump is charging on foreign goods.<\/p>\n Hong Kong\u2019s Hang Seng dropped 0.9% to 25,781.77, while the Shanghai Composite index inched down less than 0.1% to 3,913.76.<\/p>\n Japan\u2019s benchmark Nikkei 225 wavered between slight gains and losses a day after its parliament chose Sanae Takaichi to be its first female prime minister.<\/a><\/p>\n It closed almost flat at 49,307.79, pulled lower by declines for tech companies like SoftBank Group Corp., whose shares fell nearly 5%.<\/p>\n The government reported that Japan\u2019s exports<\/a> grew 4.2% in September from a year earlier, boosted by robust shipments to Asia that offset a 13% decline in those destined for the U.S. Auto shipments fell 24% as they were hit hard by Trump\u2019s tariff hikes.<\/p>\n Australia’s S&P\/ASX 200 lost 0.7% to 9,030.00, while South Korea’s Kospi rose 1.6% to 3,883.68.<\/p>\n Upcoming corporate earnings reports also can provide details on the strength of the U.S. economy at a time when the U.S. government\u2019s shutdown<\/a> has delayed important economic updates<\/a>. That\u2019s making the job of the Federal Reserve more difficult, as it tries to decide whether high inflation<\/a> or the slowing job market <\/a> is the bigger issue for the economy.<\/p>\n Despite the shutdown, the Commerce Department will release its consumer prices report on Friday, which could help guide the Fed\u2019s interest rate policy. It will be the government\u2019s first data release since the shutdown began on Oct. 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TOKYO (AP) \u2014 Global shares were mostly lower Wednesday on selling of technology shares following a lackluster day…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":323648,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[64,5005,15243,161621,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-323647","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-president-donald-trump","10":"tag-south-korea","11":"tag-technology-shares","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115417500281152752","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323647","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=323647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}