Asian markets decline in early deals on Wednesday

17 Jul 2019 Evaluate

Asian equity benchmarks are trading lower on Wednesday, on account of resurfaced trade tensions between the US and China and on worries after the better than expected US retail data dimmed hopes for aggressive interest rate trim this month. The market sentiments is also weighed as Crude oil futures fell sharply following after US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's comments that Iran is prepared to negotiate about its missile program. The Japanese NIkkei is clinging to negative trend in line with the weaker cues from Wall Street stocks. Among the other Asian markets, Shanghai, Indonesia, Malaysia Singapore, South Korea, Hong Kong, and Taiwan are in negative territory.

Nikkei 225 decreases 78.48 points or 0.36% to 21,456.77, Straits Times down 4.75 points or 0.14% to 3,355.28, Hang Seng dims 87.84 points or 0.31% to 28,531.78, Shanghai dips by 1.58 points 0.05% to 2,936.04, Jakarta Composite diminish by 18.65 points or 0.29% to 6,383.23, FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI decreases 6.36 points or 0.38% to 1,662.58, Taiwan Weighted decline 73.24 points or 0.67% to 10,812.81, and KOSPI Index dips 21.77 points or 1.04% to 2,070.10.

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