{"id":87751,"date":"2026-07-03T20:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T10:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets.com\/blog\/?p=87751"},"modified":"2026-07-03T20:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T10:05:09","slug":"friday-3rd-july-2026-asia-markets-mixed-as-tech-weakness-continues-despite-record-dow-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets.com\/blog\/friday-3rd-july-2026-asia-markets-mixed-as-tech-weakness-continues-despite-record-dow-close\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday 3rd July 2026: Asia Markets Mixed as Tech Weakness Continues Despite Record Dow Close"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3><br \/>Global Markets:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>&nbsp;Asian Stock Markets : Nikkei up 0.89%, Shanghai Composite up 0.69% Hang Seng up 1.35% ASX up 1.37%<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Commodities : Gold at $4,191.25 (1.58%) Silver at $62.905 (2.99%), Brent Oil at $72.27 (0.64%), WTI Oil at $69.03 (0.49%)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Rates : US 10-year yield at 4.469, UK 10-year yield at 4.7812, Germany 10-year yield at 2.8984<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3>News &amp; Data:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>(USD) Non-Farm Employment Change 57K&nbsp; to 114K&nbsp; expected<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3>Markets Update:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Asia-Pacific markets traded mixed on Friday as investors continued rotating out of technology stocks, following overnight weakness on Wall Street. Japan\u2019s Nikkei 225 gained 0.37% and the Topix rose 0.34%. South Korea\u2019s Kospi advanced 0.97%, while the Kosdaq fell 1.12%. Australia\u2019s S&amp;P\/ASX 200 added 0.42%. Hong Kong\u2019s Hang Seng climbed 1.72% and China\u2019s CSI 300 rose 0.74%, while Taiwan\u2019s Taiex declined 0.91%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the U.S., markets closed mixed on Thursday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average surged 594.83 points, or 1.14%, to a record 52,900.07 after a softer-than-expected June jobs report strengthened expectations of Federal Reserve rate cuts. The S&amp;P 500 ended little changed, while the Nasdaq lost 0.8% as semiconductor stocks extended their decline for a second consecutive session. The VanEck Semiconductor ETF dropped 4.5%, with Teradyne and KLA posting sharp losses. Nvidia fell 1.4%, while Micron declined 5.5%. U.S. markets are closed Friday for the Independence Day holiday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Hong Kong, Kuaishou Technology slipped after announcing a nearly $2.8 billion capital injection into its AI unit, Kling AI, despite initially rising over 5% at the open.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, oil prices edged higher, with WTI crude trading at $68.95 per barrel and Brent crude at $72.07, as investors monitored diplomatic developments between Washington and Tehran alongside ongoing geopolitical risks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3>Upcoming Events:<br \/><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>08:30 AM GMT &#8211; GBP Final Services PMI<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global Markets: News &amp; Data: Markets Update: Asia-Pacific markets traded mixed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":84958,"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\/87751"}],"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=87751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87752,"href":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87751\/revisions\/87752"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}