{"id":71345,"date":"2025-08-14T16:06:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T06:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets-vnj.com\/blog\/?p=71345"},"modified":"2025-08-14T16:06:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T06:06:18","slug":"thursday-14th-august-2025-asian-markets-rise-on-fed-cut-hopes-australia-at-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets-vnk.com\/blog\/thursday-14th-august-2025-asian-markets-rise-on-fed-cut-hopes-australia-at-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday 14th August 2025: Asian Markets Rise on Fed Cut Hopes; Australia at Record"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Global Markets:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>&nbsp;Asian Stock Markets : Nikkei down -1.41%, Shanghai Composite down -0.57%, Hang Seng down -0.59% ASX up 0.48%<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Commodities : Gold at $3.407.55 (-0.02%), Silver at $38.580 (-0.06%), Brent Oil at $65.91 (0.43%), WTI Oil at $62.91 (0.42%)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Rates : US 10-year yield at 4.236, UK 10-year yield at 4.5880, Germany 10-year yield at 2.6801<\/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 3.0M&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>Asian markets traded mostly higher Thursday, buoyed by Wall Street\u2019s gains and optimism that the US Fed will cut rates next month, with CME Group\u2019s FedWatch Tool showing a 93.8% chance of a 25-basis-point reduction. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent urged keeping the option open for a larger 50-point cut after weak US jobs data. President Trump continues to press Fed Chair Jerome Powell for deeper cuts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Australia, the S&amp;P\/ASX 200 jumped 70.70 points, or 0.80%, to 8,897.80, hitting a record high, supported by mining, energy, financials, and tech gains. Rio Tinto lagged, while Origin Energy surged nearly 5% on strong earnings. Westpac soared over 6% on upbeat quarterly results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Japan\u2019s Nikkei 225 fell 1.27% to 42,726.63, ending a seven-day rally, as losses in exporters and tech outweighed gains in financials. Toyota dropped 1.5%, and Tokyo Electron slid over 2%, while SoftBank rose more than 3%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Elsewhere, New Zealand, China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Indonesia gained modestly, while Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan eased.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Wall Street, the Nasdaq and S&amp;P 500 closed at record highs despite midday pullbacks, while the Dow rose 1%. European markets also advanced, and crude oil slipped 0.87% to $62.62 on oversupply concerns from the IEA.<\/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 Core PPI m\/m<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>12:30 PM GMT &#8211; USD PPI m\/m<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>12:30 PM GMT &#8211; USD Unemployment Claims<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global Markets: News &amp; Data: Markets Update: Asian markets traded mostly [&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-71345","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\/71345","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=71345"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets-vnk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71350,"href":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets-vnk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71345\/revisions\/71350"}],"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=71345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets-vnk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets-vnk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}