{"id":79902,"date":"2025-11-12T19:37:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T08:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets.com\/blog\/?p=79902"},"modified":"2025-11-12T19:37:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T08:37:19","slug":"wednesday-12th-november-2025-asian-markets-advance-on-hopes-of-u-s-shutdown-resolution-and-fed-rate-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets.com\/blog\/wednesday-12th-november-2025-asian-markets-advance-on-hopes-of-u-s-shutdown-resolution-and-fed-rate-cut\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday 12th November 2025: Asian Markets Advance on Hopes of U.S. Shutdown Resolution and Fed Rate Cut"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3><br \/>Global Markets:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>&nbsp;Asian Stock Markets : Nikkei down -0.34%, Shanghai Composite down -0.28%, Hang Seng up 0.52% ASX down -0.01%<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Commodities : Gold at $4,118.95 (0.04%), Silver at $50.925 (0.36%), Brent Oil at $64.93 (-0.35%), WTI Oil at $60.81 (-0.38%)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Rates : US 10-year yield at 4.079, UK 10-year yield at 4.3880, Germany 10-year yield at 2.6574<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3>News &amp; Data:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>(GBP) Claimant Count Change&nbsp; 29.0K&nbsp; to 17.6K expected<br \/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3>Markets Update:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Asian stock markets are trading mostly higher on Wednesday, following mixed cues from Wall Street overnight, amid optimism that the record 42-day U.S. government shutdown may soon end and growing expectations of a Federal Reserve rate cut next month. The Senate\u2019s approval of a bill to end the shutdown lifted investor sentiment, as traders shifted focus to upcoming U.S. economic data for clarity on the Fed\u2019s policy path. CME Group\u2019s FedWatch Tool indicates a 67.6% chance of a 25-basis-point rate cut at the December 9\u201310 meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Australia, the S&amp;P\/ASX 200 is up 0.22% at 8,838.10, supported by gains in mining and energy stocks. Mineral Resources surged over 9% after selling a 30% stake in its lithium business to South Korea\u2019s POSCO. BHP and Rio Tinto also gained over 1%. In contrast, tech stocks like Xero and Zip declined nearly 2%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Japan\u2019s Nikkei 225 rose 0.17% to 50,927.29, with gains in automakers and financials offsetting losses in tech shares. SoftBank tumbled nearly 6% after selling its $5.8 billion Nvidia stake to refocus on OpenAI investments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Elsewhere in Asia, markets in China, Hong Kong, South Korea, and Singapore are up between 0.2% and 1.1%. On Wall Street, the Dow gained 1.18%, the S&amp;P 500 rose 0.21%, while the NASDAQ slipped 0.25%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3><br \/><br \/>Upcoming Events:<br \/><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>01:30 PM GMT &#8211; CAD Building Permits m\/m<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global Markets: News &amp; Data: Markets Update: Asian stock markets are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":79815,"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\/79902"}],"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=79902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79903,"href":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79902\/revisions\/79903"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}