{"id":69788,"date":"2025-04-02T17:08:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T06:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets-vni.com\/blog\/?p=69788"},"modified":"2025-08-05T20:51:58","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T10:51:58","slug":"wednesday-2nd-april-2025-asia-pacific-markets-mixed-as-investors-await-u-s-tariffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets-vnk.com\/blog\/wednesday-2nd-april-2025-asia-pacific-markets-mixed-as-investors-await-u-s-tariffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday 2nd April 2025: Asia-Pacific Markets Mixed as Investors Await U.S. Tariffs"},"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 0.34%, Shanghai Composite up 0.06%, Hang Seng down 0.23% ASX up 0.14%<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Commodities : Gold at $3145.35 (0.80%), Silver at $34.47 (0.48%), Brent Oil at $74.75 (0.15%), WTI Oil at $71.26 (0.04%)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Rates : US 10-year yield at 4.199, UK 10-year yield at 4.6330, Germany 10-year yield at 2.6810<\/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) Final Manufacturing PMI 50.2&nbsp; to 49.8 expected<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>(USD) ISM Manufacturing PMI 49.0&nbsp; to 49.5 expected<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Markets Update:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Asia-Pacific markets showed mixed performance on Wednesday as investors anticipated new tariffs from U.S. President Donald Trump later this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Japan\u2019s Nikkei 225 edged up 0.10%, while the Topix slipped 0.55%. South Korea\u2019s Kospi dropped 0.30%, and the small-cap Kosdaq declined 0.47%. Australia\u2019s S&amp;P\/ASX 200 gained 0.26%. Meanwhile, Hong Kong\u2019s Hang Seng Index remained flat, and mainland China\u2019s CSI 300 rose 0.15%. India\u2019s Nifty 50 opened with a 0.45% gain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the U.S., stock futures traded higher ahead of Trump\u2019s tariff announcement. Overnight, Wall Street\u2019s major indexes closed mixed. The S&amp;P 500 advanced 0.38% to 5,633.07, while the Nasdaq Composite gained 0.87%, closing at 17,449.89. However, the Dow Jones Industrial Average dipped slightly by 11.80 points, or 0.03%, settling at 41,989.96.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Market volatility is expected in the short term, but UBS analysts predict a more optimistic outlook in the latter half of the year. They suggest that investors use market fluctuations as an opportunity to build long-term positions.<\/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>12:15 PM GMT &#8211; USD ADP Non-Farm Employment Change<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>08:00 PM GMT &#8211; USD President Trump Speaks<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global Markets: News &amp; Data: Markets Update: Asia-Pacific markets showed mixed [&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-69788","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\/69788","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=69788"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets-vnk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69793,"href":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets-vnk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69788\/revisions\/69793"}],"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=69788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets-vnk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets-vnk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}