{"id":3120,"date":"2018-10-11T02:24:36","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T02:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/asian-markets-fall-sharply-after-us-losses\/"},"modified":"2018-10-11T02:24:36","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T02:24:36","slug":"asian-markets-fall-sharply-after-us-losses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/asian-markets-fall-sharply-after-us-losses\/","title":{"rendered":"Asian markets fall sharply after US losses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div property=\"articleBody\">\n<figure class=\"media-landscape no-caption full-width lead\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"js-image-replace\" alt=\"A woman passes before a share prices board in Tokyo on January 22, 2016.\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/DC1E\/production\/_103805365_gettyimages-506187552.jpg\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\"\/><span class=\"off-screen\">Image copyright<\/span><br \/>\n                 <span class=\"story-image-copyright\">Getty Images<\/span><\/p>\n<p>            <\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">Asian stocks slumped in early trade as concerns about higher US interest rates and a global trade war prompted investors to sell risk globally.<\/p>\n<p>Markets in Asia took their cue from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-45815183\" class=\"story-body__link\">US stocks, which suffered their sharpest one-day falls in months.<\/a> on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Japan&#8217;s benchmark Nikkei 225 is down 3.6%. In China, Hong Kong&#8217;s Hang Seng slumped 3% and the Shanghai Composite shed 2.6%.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-45657009\" class=\"story-body__link\">The US Federal Reserve raised rates in September<\/a> as the economy grows solidly.<\/p>\n<p>Higher interest rates makes borrowing more expensive, slowing economic activity and hurting investor appetite for risk.<\/p>\n<p>A US-led trade war against China has also made investors worried about the outlook for global growth.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere in Asia, South Korea&#8217;s benchmark Kospi index fell 2.8% and Australia&#8217;s  S&amp;P\/ASX 200 index fell 1.9%.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-45819250\">Source<\/a> by <a href=\"\">[author_name]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright Getty Images Asian stocks slumped in early trade as concerns about higher US interest rates and a global trade war prompted investors to sell risk globally. Markets in Asia took their cue from US stocks, which suffered their sharpest one-day falls in months. on Wednesday. Japan&#8217;s benchmark Nikkei 225 is down 3.6%. In &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}