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Asian shares trade mostly higher after Wall Street snaps its 3-day losing streak
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....sian shares trade mostly higher after Wall Street snaps its 3-day losing streak<BR>Customs & Trade<BR>Dated:- 29-9-2025<BR>PTI<BR>Bangkok, Sep 29 (AP) Shares were mostly higher Monday in Asia after Wall Street broke its three-day losing streak, trimming its losses for last week. China factory data are due out on Tuesday and a quarterly business sentiment survey by the Bank of Japan comes on Wedn....
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....esday. The next big event for Wall Street could be a looming shutdown of the US government, with a deadline set for this week. But such political impasses have had limited impact on the market before. US jobs data also will be in the spotlight. US futures edged higher early Monday and oil prices fell. Tokyo's Nikkei was the regional outlier, giving up 1 per cent to 44,892.52. Chinese mar....
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....kets advanced, with the Hang Seng in Hong Kong adding 1.5 per cent to 26,518.03, while the Shanghai Composite index gained 0.1 per cent to 3,832.65. Australia's S&P/ASX 200 rose 0.7 per cent to 8,545.70, while the Kospi in South Korea surged 1.3 per cent to 3,430.57. On Friday, US stocks trimmed their losses for the week after a report showed that inflation is behaving roughly as economists ex....
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....pected, even if it's still high. The S&P 500 rose 0.6 per cent to 6,643.70. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 0.7 per cent to 46,247.29, while the Nasdaq composite added 0.4 per cent to 22,484.07. All three indexes pulled closer to the all-time highs they set at the start of the week. Stocks got some help from the report showing inflation in the United States accelerated to 2.7 per cent ....
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....last month from 2.6 per cent in July, according to the measure of prices that the Federal Reserve likes to use. While that's above the Fed's 2 per cent target, it was precisely what economists had forecast. That offered some hope that the Fed could continue cutting interest rates in order to give the economy a boost. Without such cuts, growing criticism that stock prices have become too expensiv....
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....e by rising too quickly would become even more powerful. The Fed just delivered its first rate cut of the year last week but is not promising more because they could worsen inflation. Another report said sentiment among US consumers was weaker than economists expected. The survey from the University of Michigan said consumers are frustrated with high prices, but their expectations for inflatio....
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....n over the coming 12 months also ticked down to 4.7 per cent from 4.8 per cent. One factor threatening to push inflation higher, adding to consumer woes, is President Donald Trump's tariffs, and he announced more late Thursday. They include taxes on imports of some pharmaceutical drugs, kitchen cabinets and bathroom vanities, upholstered furniture and heavy trucks starting on October 1. Detail....
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....s were sparse about the coming tariffs, as is often the case with Trump's pronouncements on his social media network. That left analysts unsure of their ultimate effects, and the announcement created ripples in the US stock market instead of huge waves. Paccar, the company based in Bellevue, Washington, that's behind the market-dominant Peterbilt and Kenworth truck brands, revved 5.2 per cent hi....
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....gher, for example. Big US pharmaceutical companies nudged higher. Eli Lilly rose 1.4 per cent, and Pfizer added 0.7 per cent. In other trading early Monday, US benchmark crude oil lost 49 cents to USD 65.23 per barrel. Brent crude, the international standard, declined 42 cents to USD 68.80 per barrel. Reports that the OPEC plus oil producing nations might raise their production limits next m....
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....onth have added to worries over oversupply, analysts said. The US dollar slipped to 148.93 Japanese yen from 149.51 yen. The euro rose to USD 1.1727 from USD 1.1703. (AP) GRS GRS<BR> News - Press release - PIB....