{"id":76056,"date":"2025-05-15T16:07:57","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T06:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets.com\/blog\/?p=76056"},"modified":"2025-08-05T19:29:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T09:29:03","slug":"thursday-15th-may-2025-asia-pacific-markets-decline-amid-caution-on-u-s-china-trade-and-economic-outlook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets.com\/blog\/thursday-15th-may-2025-asia-pacific-markets-decline-amid-caution-on-u-s-china-trade-and-economic-outlook\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday 15th May 2025: Asia-Pacific Markets Decline Amid Caution on U.S.-China Trade and Economic Outlook"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3><br \/><br \/>Global Markets:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>&nbsp;Asian Stock Markets : Nikkei down 0.8%, Shanghai Composite down 0.47%, Hang Seng down 0.43% ASX up 0.22%<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Commodities : Gold at $3142.35 (-1.39%), Silver at $31.8 (-0.69%), Brent Oil at $64.38 (-2.29%), WTI Oil at $61.7 (-2.29%)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Rates : US 10-year yield at 4.541, UK 10-year yield at 4.7120, Germany 10-year yield at 2.6920<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3>News &amp; Data:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>(CAD) Building Permits -4.1%&nbsp; to -0.7%&nbsp; expected<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3>Markets Update:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Asia-Pacific markets mostly declined on Thursday, diverging from Wall Street\u2019s upward momentum as investors weighed recent U.S.-China trade developments. Japan\u2019s Nikkei 225 dropped 0.90%, while the Topix shed 0.75%. In South Korea, the Kospi slid 0.29%, and the small-cap Kosdaq declined 0.37%. Hong Kong\u2019s Hang Seng index fell 0.42%, and China\u2019s CSI 300 lost 0.6%. India\u2019s Nifty 50 opened flat, showing little movement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Australia\u2019s S&amp;P\/ASX 200 was a rare outlier, posting a gain of 0.21%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>U.S. stock futures slipped slightly in overnight trading, despite recent strength in the equity markets. Earlier this week, the U.S. and China reached a temporary pause in their ongoing tariff battle, which had sparked optimism among investors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Wednesday, U.S. markets saw mixed results. The S&amp;P 500 rose 0.10% to close at 5,892.58, marking its third consecutive day of gains and pushing the index into positive territory for the year. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite performed strongly, climbing 0.72% to finish at 19,146.81. However, the Dow Jones Industrial Average lagged, falling 89.37 points or 0.21%, closing at 42,051.06. Despite some progress on trade, global markets remain sensitive to economic indicators and policy shifts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3>Upcoming Events:&nbsp;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>12:30 PM GMT &#8211; USD Core PPI m\/m<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>12:30 PM GMT &#8211; USD PPI m\/m<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>12:30 PM GMT &#8211; USD Core Retail Sales m\/m<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>12:30 PM GMT &#8211; USD Retail Sales m\/m<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>12:30 PM GMT &#8211; USD Unemployment Claims<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>12:40 PM GMT &#8211; USD Fed Chair Powell Speaks<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global Markets: News &amp; Data: Markets Update: Asia-Pacific markets mostly declined [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":77277,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[196,215,339],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76056"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76056"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76061,"href":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76056\/revisions\/76061"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}