{"id":71361,"date":"2025-08-15T16:57:23","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T06:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets-vnj.com\/blog\/?p=71361"},"modified":"2025-08-15T16:57:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T06:57:23","slug":"friday-15th-august-2025-asian-markets-mixed-japan-gains-on-strong-gdp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets-vnk.com\/blog\/friday-15th-august-2025-asian-markets-mixed-japan-gains-on-strong-gdp\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday 15th August 2025: Asian Markets Mixed; Japan Gains on Strong GDP"},"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 up 1.69%, Shanghai Composite up 0.83%, Hang Seng down -1.11% ASX up 0.68%<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Commodities : Gold at $3,390.90 (0.23%), Silver at $38.100 (0.08%), Brent Oil at $66.72 (-0.18%), WTI Oil at $63.81 (-0.23%)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Rates : US 10-year yield at 4.271, UK 10-year yield at 4.6430, Germany 10-year yield at 2.7062<\/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) Core PPI m\/m 0.9%&nbsp; to 0.9% expected<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>(USD) PPI m\/m 0.2%&nbsp; to 0.2% expected<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>(USD) Unemployment Change 224K&nbsp; to 225K expected<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Markets Update:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Asian markets traded mixed Friday after hotter-than-expected US producer price data and strong labor figures dampened hopes for a larger September Fed rate cut. Traders also stayed cautious ahead of US-Russia talks on ending the prolonged Ukraine conflict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Australian shares rose modestly, extending Thursday\u2019s gains, with the S&amp;P\/ASX 200 up 0.27% to 8,897.80, led by energy, tech, and banking stocks. Ampol surged nearly 7% after a $1.1 billion acquisition of EG Australia, while Baby Bunting soared 28% on upbeat profit guidance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Japan\u2019s Nikkei 225 jumped 0.91% to 43,036.46, buoyed by stronger-than-expected Q2 GDP growth of 0.3% quarter-on-quarter and financial sector strength. Big gainers included Mitsubishi UFJ (+5%), SoftBank (+2%), and Sony (+3%). However, Dentsu plunged over 12%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other Asian markets were mixed: Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, and Taiwan slipped up to 0.9%, while New Zealand, China, South Korea, and Indonesia posted small gains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Wall Street Thursday, stocks fluctuated before closing narrowly mixed. The S&amp;P 500 edged up to a record 6,468.54, the Nasdaq dipped slightly, and the Dow eased 11 points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Europe, the FTSE 100 added 0.1%, while the CAC 40 and DAX rose 0.8%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Crude oil climbed 2.1% to $63.97 ahead of the Alaska meeting between US and Russian leaders. The Aussie dollar traded at $0.649, and the yen hovered in the lower 147 range per US dollar.<\/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 Retail Sales m\/m<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>12:30 PM GMT &#8211; USD Retail Sales m\/m<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global Markets: News &amp; Data: Markets Update: Asian markets traded 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-71361","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\/71361","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=71361"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets-vnk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71366,"href":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets-vnk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71361\/revisions\/71366"}],"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=71361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets-vnk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets-vnk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}