{"id":69593,"date":"2025-03-18T17:35:40","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T06:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets-vni.com\/blog\/?p=69593"},"modified":"2025-08-06T15:15:02","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T05:15:02","slug":"tuesday-18th-march-2025-asia-pacific-markets-rally-as-wall-street-gains-ease-recession-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets-vnk.com\/blog\/tuesday-18th-march-2025-asia-pacific-markets-rally-as-wall-street-gains-ease-recession-fears\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday 18th March 2025: Asia-Pacific Markets Rally as Wall Street Gains Ease Recession Fears"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><br \/>Global Markets:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>&nbsp;Asian Stock Markets : Nikkei up 1.43%, Shanghai Composite up 0.09%, Hang Seng up 1.88% ASX up 0.06%<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Commodities : Gold at $3023.35 (0.20%), Silver at $34.25 (-0.68%), Brent Oil at $71.15 (0.65%), WTI Oil at $67.51 (0.74%)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Rates : US 10-year yield at 4.286, UK 10-year yield at 4.6420, Germany 10-year yield at 2.8020<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">News &amp; Data:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>(USD) Core Retail Sales m\/m 0.3%&nbsp; to 0,3% expected<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>(USD) Retail Sales m\/m 0.2%&nbsp; to 0.6% expected<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Markets Update:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><br \/>Asia-Pacific markets rose on Tuesday, following gains on Wall Street after U.S. retail sales data helped ease recession concerns. Hong Kong\u2019s Hang Seng Index led the region, climbing 1.93%, driven by a strong rally in tech stocks like Baidu, which surged 9.83%. Mainland China\u2019s CSI 300 also rebounded, edging up 0.15% after previous session losses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Investors are closely watching Japan as the Bank of Japan (BOJ) begins its two-day monetary policy meeting. The central bank is expected to maintain interest rates at 0.5% when the meeting concludes on Wednesday. This coincides with the U.S. Federal Reserve\u2019s meeting, where rates are also expected to remain unchanged. Japan\u2019s Nikkei 225 gained 1.43%, while the Topix index rose 1.41%. South Korea\u2019s Kospi increased 0.17%, with the small-cap Kosdaq adding 0.11%. Australia\u2019s S&amp;P\/ASX 200 traded flat after early gains. In India, the Nifty 50 and BSE Sensex climbed 0.45% and 0.43%, respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, U.S. futures dipped despite a rebound in major indexes. The S&amp;P 500 rose 0.64% to close at 5,675.12, the Nasdaq Composite gained 0.31% to 17,808.66, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average advanced 0.85%, adding 353.44 points to end at 41,841.63.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Dow\u2019s rise was supported by gains in Walmart and IBM. All three major U.S. indices posted consecutive daily gains, bouncing back from a four-week slump driven by declining consumer confidence and trade policy uncertainty.<br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Upcoming Events:&nbsp;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>12:30 PM GMT &#8211; CAD CPI m\/m<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>12:30 PM GMT &#8211; CAD Median CPI&nbsp; y\/y<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>12:30 PM GMT &#8211; CAD Trimmed CPI&nbsp; y\/y<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global Markets: News &amp; Data: Markets Update: Asia-Pacific markets rose on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":71231,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[196,215,339],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fundamental-analysis","category-market-analysis","category-recent-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets-vnk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets-vnk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets-vnk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets-vnk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets-vnk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69593"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets-vnk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69602,"href":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets-vnk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69593\/revisions\/69602"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets-vnk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets-vnk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets-vnk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets-vnk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}