{"id":70716,"date":"2025-06-23T16:09:49","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T06:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets-vnj.com\/blog\/?p=70716"},"modified":"2025-08-05T18:25:57","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T08:25:57","slug":"monday-23rd-june-2025-asia-pacific-markets-slide-as-u-s-strikes-in-iran-fuel-oil-surge-and-global-tensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets-vnk.com\/blog\/monday-23rd-june-2025-asia-pacific-markets-slide-as-u-s-strikes-in-iran-fuel-oil-surge-and-global-tensions\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday 23rd June 2025: Asia-Pacific Markets Slide as U.S. Strikes in Iran Fuel Oil Surge and Global Tensions"},"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 0.19%, Shanghai Composite up 0.18%, Hang Seng up 0.29% ASX down 0.38%<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Commodities : Gold at $3371.35 (-0.79%), Silver at $36.08 (0.09%), Brent Oil at $76.38 (1.59%), WTI Oil at $74.8 (1.33%)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Rates : US 10-year yield at 4.313, UK 10-year yield at 4.5250, Germany 10-year yield at 2.513<\/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 -0.3%&nbsp; to -0.2% expected<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>(CAD) Retail Sales m\/m 0.3%&nbsp; to 0.4% expected<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Markets Update:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Asia-Pacific markets fell on Monday after the United States launched strikes on three nuclear sites in Iran, intensifying concerns about a broader Middle East conflict and pushing oil prices higher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brent Crude rose 1.95% to $78.51 per barrel, while West Texas Intermediate climbed 2.06% to $75.36. The oil rally reflects investor fears that the conflict could disrupt global supply.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Japan\u2019s Nikkei 225 slipped 0.32% and the Topix index declined 0.43%. South Korea\u2019s Kospi dropped 0.41%, and the Kosdaq tumbled 1.42%. In China, the CSI 300 index fell 0.2%, and Hong Kong\u2019s Hang Seng dipped 0.13%. Australia\u2019s S&amp;P\/ASX 200 was down 0.43%. Indian markets also declined, with the Nifty 50 dropping 0.9% and the BSE Sensex falling 0.74%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>U.S. equity futures edged lower during Asian trading hours. Dow Jones futures dropped 109 points (0.3%), while S&amp;P 500 and Nasdaq 100 futures each fell 0.3% and 0.4%, respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Wall Street, two of the three major indexes closed lower last Friday. The S&amp;P 500 slid 0.22% to 5,967.84, marking its third straight loss. The Nasdaq Composite dropped 0.51% to 19,447.41. In contrast, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose slightly by 35.16 points (0.08%) to end at 42,206.82, as investors evaluated the Fed\u2019s next move on interest rates amid global uncertainty.<\/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>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 fell 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-70716","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\/70716","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=70716"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets-vnk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70721,"href":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets-vnk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70716\/revisions\/70721"}],"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=70716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets-vnk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets-vnk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}