{"id":70438,"date":"2025-05-26T16:40:22","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T06:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets-vnj.com\/blog\/?p=70438"},"modified":"2025-08-05T19:16:42","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T09:16:42","slug":"monday-26th-may-2025-asia-pacific-markets-mixed-as-us-tariff-delay-impacts-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets-vnk.com\/blog\/monday-26th-may-2025-asia-pacific-markets-mixed-as-us-tariff-delay-impacts-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday 26th May 2025: Asia-Pacific Markets Mixed as US Tariff Delay Impacts Trade"},"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 0.98%, Shanghai Composite down 0.17%, Hang Seng down 1.15% ASX up 0.03%<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Commodities : Gold at $3373.35 (-0.69%), Silver at $33.68 (0.29%), Brent Oil at $64.8 (0.29%), WTI Oil at $61.8 (0.49%)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Rates : US 10-year yield at 4.552, UK 10-year yield at 4.6770, Germany 10-year yield at 2.5740<\/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>(CAD) Core Retail Sales m\/m -0.7%&nbsp; to -0.1% expected<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>(CAD) Retail Sales m\/m 0.8%&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>Asia-Pacific markets experienced a mixed trading day on Monday, with investor sentiment influenced by U.S. President Donald Trump&#8217;s decision to postpone 50% tariffs on European Union imports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Japanese markets saw gains, with the Nikkei 225 rising 0.86% and the broader Topix index adding 0.46%. South Korea&#8217;s Kospi also advanced, up 1.15%, while the small-cap Kosdaq increased by 1.38%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In contrast, mainland Chinese markets saw declines, with the CSI 300 index falling 0.73%. Hong Kong&#8217;s Hang Seng Index also dropped by 1%. Meanwhile, India&#8217;s Nifty 50 moved up 0.78% in early trade, and the BSE Sensex rose 0.77%. Australia&#8217;s S&amp;P\/ASX 200 remained largely flat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>U.S. futures showed a slight uptick in early Asian trading, though U.S. markets were closed for Memorial Day. This follows a downturn on Wall Street last Friday, where all three major benchmarks declined. The S&amp;P 500 shed 0.67%, the Nasdaq Composite dropped 1%, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 0.61%.<\/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>11:50 PM GMT &#8211; JPY SPPI y\/y<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global Markets: News &amp; Data: Markets Update: Asia-Pacific markets experienced a [&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-70438","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\/70438","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=70438"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets-vnk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70443,"href":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets-vnk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70438\/revisions\/70443"}],"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=70438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets-vnk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets-vnk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}