{"id":79324,"date":"2025-07-21T00:39:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T00:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/79324\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T00:39:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T00:39:11","slug":"asia-stock-markets-today-live-updates-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/79324\/","title":{"rendered":"Asia stock markets today: live updates"},"content":{"rendered":"

Asia-Pacific markets open mixed<\/p>\n

South Korean markets started the day higher Monday.<\/p>\n

As of 8.10 a.m. Singapore time (8.10 p.m. ET Sunday), the\u00a0Kospi<\/a>\u00a0index rose 0.45%, while the small-cap Kosdaq was flat.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Australia’s S&P\/ASX 200<\/a> benchmark was flat.<\/p>\n

Japanese markets were closed for the Marine Day public holiday.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Amala Balakrishner<\/p>\n

Here are the opening calls for the day <\/p>\n

Good morning from Singapore.<\/p>\n

Investors will be keeping a close watch on the People’s Bank of China’s decision on its 1-year and 5-year loan prime rates for July expected later in the day.<\/p>\n

Futures for Hong Kong’s\u00a0Hang Seng index<\/a>\u00a0stood at 24,883, pointing to a stronger open compared with the HSI’s Friday close of 24,825.66.<\/p>\n

Australia’s\u00a0S&P\/ASX 200<\/a>\u00a0was set to start the day lower with futures tied to the benchmark at 8,688, compared with its last close of 8,757.20.<\/p>\n

Japanese markets were closed for a public holiday.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Amala Balakrishner<\/p>\n

U.S. futures little changed in early Asia hours<\/p>\n

Fri, Jul 18 20254:03 PM EDT<\/p>\n

S&P 500, Dow end Friday in the red<\/p>\n

The S&P 500<\/a> and Dow Jones Industrial Average<\/a> ended Friday in the red, with stocks turning lower in afternoon trading as tariff fears took over.<\/p>\n

The 30-stock Dow lost 142.30 points, or 0.32%, ending at 44,342.19. The\u00a0S&P 500\u00a0inched 0.01% lower to close the session at 6,296.79.The tech-heavy\u00a0Nasdaq Composite<\/a>\u00a0added just 0.05% to settle at 20,895.66.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Pia Singh<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Asia-Pacific markets open mixed South Korean markets started the day higher Monday. As of 8.10 a.m. Singapore time…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":79325,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[8002,8000,4740,7992,7998,133,64,81,144,3748,8001,7994,3348,7995,135,143,7997,147,6769,145,7996,6043,7991,67,132,68,7993,7999,137],"class_list":{"0":"post-79324","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-united-states","32":"tag-unitedstates","33":"tag-us","34":"tag-usd-jpy","35":"tag-world-markets","36":"tag-wti-crude-mar23"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79324","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=79324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}