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Asian shares mostly rise, cheered by Wall Street rally to more records
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....sian shares mostly rise, cheered by Wall Street rally to more records<BR>Customs & Trade<BR>Dated:- 10-9-2025<BR>PTI<BR>Tokyo, Sep 10 (AP) Asian shares mostly rose in early Wednesday trading, echoing record rallies on Wall Street after the latest update on the job market bolstered hopes the US Federal Reserve will cut interest rates. Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 gained 0.5% in morning trading to....
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.... 43,684.29. Australia's S&P/ASX 200 added 0.2% to 8,824.20. South Korea's Kospi jumped 1.3% to 3,303.51. Hong Kong's Hang Seng rose 0.7% to 26,131.20, while the Shanghai Composite was little changed, edging down less than 0.1% to 3,804.28. Uncertainty is still in the air over US-China tariff issues as bilateral talks continue. US President Donald Trump has raised taxes on imports from China, t....
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....riggering a tit-for-tat tariff war. The US is currently charging an additional 30% tariff on Chinese goods and China is charging a 10% tariff under a de-escalation deal reached in May. On Wall Street, the S&P 500 rose 0.3% and squeaked past its all-time high set last week. The Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 196 points, or 0.4%, while the Nasdaq composite gained 0.4%. They likewise set reco....
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....rds. Traders have become convinced that the Federal Reserve will cut its main interest rate for the first time this year at its next meeting in a week, in order to prop up the slowing job market. A report on Tuesday offered the latest signal of weakness, when the US government said its prior count of jobs across the country through March may have been too high by 911,000, or 0.6%. That was b....
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....efore President Donald Trump shocked the economy and financial markets in April by rolling out tariffs on countries worldwide. The bet on Wall Street is that such data will convince Fed officials that the job market is the bigger problem now for the economy than the threat of inflation worsening because of Trump's tariffs. That would push them to cut interest rates, a move that would give the ec....
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....onomy a boost but could also send inflation higher. A lot is riding on Wall Street's hope that the job market is slowing by just the right amount: Investors have already sent US stock prices to records because of it. Inflation also needs to stay at a reasonable level, even though it looks tough to get below the Fed's target of 2%. In the bond market, the yield on the 10-year Treasury rose to 4....
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.....08% from 4.05% late Monday. In energy trading, benchmark US crude added 51 cents to $63.14 a barrel. Brent crude, the international standard, rose 51 cents to $66.90 a barrel. The rise in oil price has been relatively contained so far despite the escalation of tensions in the Middle East. Israel struck the headquarters of Hamas' political leadership in Qatar on Tuesday as the group's top figu....
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....res gathered to consider a US proposal for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. In currency trading, the US dollar inched down to 147.31 Japanese yen from 147.37 yen. The euro cost $1.1705, down from $1.1714. (AP) SCY SCY<BR> News - Press release - PIB....