Asian markets settle lower on Wednesday

20 May 2026 Evaluate

Asian markets settled lower on Wednesday tracking Wall Street’s fall overnight as rising inflation risks and geopolitical tensions lifted the 30-year US Treasury bond yield to its highest in nearly two decades and the 10-year yield to its highest level in more than a year. Moreover, traders fretted over a renewed escalation in the Middle East after US President Trump claimed the United States was just an hour away from launching a fresh military strike on Iran before postponing it at the request of Gulf leaders. Chinese shares dipped after the country's central bank -- People's Bank of China left benchmark lending rates unchanged for the 12th consecutive month in May, leaving the one-year loan prime rate at 3.0% and the five-year LPR at 3.5%. Japanese shares declined sharply as the yield on the 10-year Japanese government bond held at its highest level since 1997 on BoJ interest rate hike expectations.

Asian Indices	Last Trade	Change in Points	Change in %
Shanghai Composite	4,162.18	-7.35	-0.18
Hang Seng	25,651.12	-146.73	-0.57
Jakarta Composite	6,318.50	-52.18	-0.83
KLSE Composite	1,717.69	-9.58	-0.55
Nikkei 225	59,804.41	-746.18	-1.23
Straits Times	5,044.91	-27.43	-0.54
KOSPI Composite	7,208.95	-62.71	-0.86
Taiwan Weighted	40,020.82	-154.74	-0.39

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