{"id":70401,"date":"2025-05-22T17:06:42","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T07:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets-vnj.com\/blog\/?p=70401"},"modified":"2025-08-05T19:21:24","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T09:21:24","slug":"thursday-22nd-may-2025-asia-pacific-markets-slide-as-u-s-budget-fears-rattle-global-investor-sentiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets-vnk.com\/blog\/thursday-22nd-may-2025-asia-pacific-markets-slide-as-u-s-budget-fears-rattle-global-investor-sentiment\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday 22nd May 2025: Asia-Pacific Markets Slide as U.S. Budget Fears Rattle Global Investor Sentiment"},"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 down 0.78%, Shanghai Composite down 0.17%, Hang Seng down 0.91% ASX down 0.55%<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Commodities : Gold at $3332.35 (0.39%), Silver at $33.8 (0.69%), Brent Oil at $64.8 (1.29%), WTI Oil at $61.6 (0.29%)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Rates : US 10-year yield at 4.592, UK 10-year yield at 4.7545, Germany 10-year yield at 2.6445<\/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) Crude Oil Inventories 1.3M&nbsp; to -0.9M expected<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Markets Update:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Asia-Pacific markets declined on Thursday, mirroring Wall Street&#8217;s drop amid growing concerns that a new U.S. budget bill could significantly increase national debt. Investor sentiment turned cautious, leading to a broad regional sell-off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Japan\u2019s Nikkei 225 opened 1.06% lower, while the Topix fell 0.85%. South Korea\u2019s Kospi slipped 0.59%, and the smaller Kosdaq index declined 0.69%. In Australia, the S&amp;P\/ASX 200 shed 0.36%. Hong Kong\u2019s Hang Seng index edged down 0.24% at the open, and mainland China\u2019s CSI 300 lost 0.14%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Markets also turned their attention to New Zealand, where the 2025 budget is set to be announced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The downturn in Asia followed a volatile overnight session in the U.S., where stock futures were relatively flat after a significant Wall Street sell-off. Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average dipped by 60 points, while S&amp;P 500 and Nasdaq 100 futures showed little movement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All three major U.S. indices closed sharply lower. The Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 816.80 points, or 1.91%, ending at 41,860.44. The S&amp;P 500 dropped 1.61% to 5,844.61, and the Nasdaq Composite fell 1.41% to 18,872.64.<\/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; USD Unemployment Claims<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>01:45 PM GMT &#8211; USD Flash Manufacturing PMI<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>01:45 PM GMT &#8211; USD Flash Services PMI<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global Markets: News &amp; Data: Markets Update: Asia-Pacific markets declined 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-70401","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\/70401","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=70401"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets-vnk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70408,"href":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets-vnk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70401\/revisions\/70408"}],"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=70401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets-vnk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets-vnk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}