Asian markets end mostly lower on Friday

25 Jul 2025 Evaluate
Asian markets ended mostly lower on Friday as global investors' focus is now on the US tariff decisions, big tech earnings and interest rate decisions from both the Bank of Japan and the US Federal Reserve. Both Fed and BoJ meetings are expected to hold interest rates steady. Chinese and Hong Kong shares fell ahead of the third round of the US-China trade negotiations, and as the EU-China summit yielded few concrete changes. Japanese shares declined even as Tokyo’s soft CPI inflation data complicated the Bank of Japan's interest-rate hike prospects.

Asian Indices

Last Trade            

Change in Points

Change in %      

Shanghai Composite

3,593.66

-12.07

-0.34

Hang Seng

25,323.00

-344.18

-1.36

Jakarta Composite

7,543.50

12.60

0.17

KLSE Composite

1,533.76

-6.56

-0.43

Nikkei 225

41,467.00

-359.34

-0.87

Straits Times

4,261.06

-11.99

-0.28

KOSPI Composite

3,196.05

5.60

0.18

Taiwan Weighted

23,364.38

-9.35

-0.04


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