{"id":71651,"date":"2025-09-08T15:27:34","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T05:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets-vnj.com\/blog\/?p=71651"},"modified":"2025-09-08T15:27:34","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T05:27:34","slug":"monday-8th-september-2025-asia-stocks-up-on-fed-hopes-japan-leads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets-vnk.com\/blog\/monday-8th-september-2025-asia-stocks-up-on-fed-hopes-japan-leads\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday 8th September 2025: Asia Stocks Up on Fed Hopes, Japan Leads"},"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 1.57%, Shanghai Composite up 0.22%, Hang Seng up 0.30% ASX down -0.34%<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Commodities : Gold at $3,624.42 (-0.79%), Silver at $41.203 (-0.84%), Brent Oil at $66.29 (1.21%), WTI Oil at $62.62 (1.22%)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Rates : US 10-year yield at 4.096, UK 10-year yield at 4.6480, Germany 10-year yield at 2.6582<\/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) Non-Farm Employment Change 22K&nbsp; to 75K expected<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>(USD) Unemployment Rate 4.3%&nbsp; to 4.3% expected<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>(CAD) Unemployment Rate 7.1%&nbsp; to 7.0% expected<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>(CAD) Employment Change -65.5K&nbsp; to 4.9K expected<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Markets Update:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Asian stock markets opened mostly higher on Monday, shrugging off Wall Street\u2019s weak finish Friday after softer-than-expected U.S. jobs data boosted hopes for a Federal Reserve rate cut in September. Regional currencies also strengthened against a weaker dollar. The CME FedWatch tool indicates a 90% chance of a 25-basis-point cut, with slim odds of a half-point move. Investors await U.S. consumer and producer inflation reports later this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Australia, the S&amp;P\/ASX 200 slipped 34.00 points or 0.38% to 8,837.20, dragged by energy and financial stocks, though mining gains limited losses. Rio Tinto rose nearly 2%, BHP edged higher, and Mineral Resources advanced 2.5%. Woodside Energy dropped over 3%, while banks declined around 1% each. Mayne Pharma tumbled 13% on regulatory takeover concerns, while 4DMedical surged 28% after new agreements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Japan\u2019s Nikkei 225 surged 611.79 points or 1.42% to 43,630.54, supported by strong GDP data showing 0.5% quarterly growth and 2.2% annualized expansion. Tech stocks like Advantest, Tokyo Electron, and Screen Holdings gained sharply, while financials lagged. Exporters such as Sony climbed over 3%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Elsewhere, Hong Kong, South Korea, Malaysia, Indonesia, Taiwan, and New Zealand rose modestly, while China and Singapore edged lower.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Wall Street, the Dow shed 0.5%, the S&amp;P 500 fell 0.3%, and the Nasdaq&nbsp;<\/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>07:00 PM GMT &#8211; USD Consumer Credit m\/m<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global Markets: News &amp; Data: Markets Update: Asian stock markets opened [&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-71651","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\/71651","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=71651"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets-vnk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71656,"href":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets-vnk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71651\/revisions\/71656"}],"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=71651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets-vnk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets-vnk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}