{"id":33293,"date":"2019-03-15T17:47:03","date_gmt":"2019-03-15T06:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets.com\/blog\/?p=33293"},"modified":"2019-03-15T17:47:03","modified_gmt":"2019-03-15T06:47:03","slug":"friday-15th-march-asian-markets-higher-as-uk-parliament-votes-to-delay-brexit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icm-cn-asia.com\/blog\/friday-15th-march-asian-markets-higher-as-uk-parliament-votes-to-delay-brexit\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday 15th March: Asian markets higher as UK parliament votes to delay Brexit"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Global Markets:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Asian Stock Markets : Nikkei up 0.76%, Shanghai Composite up 0.99%, Hang Seng up 0.93%, ASX down 0.07%<\/li>\n<li>Commodities : Gold at $1300.85 (+0.44%), Silver at $15.34 (+1.10%), Brent Oil at $67.36 (+0.19%), WTI Oil at $58.72 (+0.19%)<\/li>\n<li>Rates : US 10-year yield at 2.621, UK 10-year yield at 1.225, Germany 10-year yield at 0.082<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>News &amp; Data:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>(NZD) Visitor Arrivals m\/m -0.10% vs -2.70% previous<\/li>\n<li>(NZD) Business NZ Manufacturing Index 53.7 vs 53 previous<\/li>\n<li>(GBP) Parliament Brexit Vote Pass vs Pass expected<\/li>\n<li>(USD) Natural Gas Storage -204B vs -211B expected<\/li>\n<li>(USD) New Home Sales 607K vs 622K expected<\/li>\n<li>(USD) Unemployment Claims 229K vs 225K expected<\/li>\n<li>(USD) Import Prices m\/m 0.60% vs 0.30% expected<\/li>\n<li>(CAD) NHPI m\/m -0.10% vs 0.00% expected<\/li>\n<li>(GBP) 30-y Bond Auction 1.74|2.3 vs 1.91|2.4 previous<\/li>\n<li>(EUR) French Final CPI m\/m 0.00% vs 0.00% expected<\/li>\n<li>(CHF) PPI m\/m 0.20% vs -0.10% expected<\/li>\n<li>(EUR) German Final CPI m\/m 0.40% vs 0.50% expected<\/li>\n<li>China\u2019s premier says \u2018strong measures\u2019 needed to support economy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Markets Update:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Asian stocks were mostly higher on Friday after U.K. lawmakers overwhelmingly backed a government motion on Thursday to ask for a three-month delay for Britain&#8217;s departure from the European Union, helping ease worries over a disorderly Brexit.<\/p>\n<p>The upside, however, remained limited amid a fresh flare up in U.S.-China trade concerns after U.S. President Donald Trump said he was in no rush to complete a trade pact with China.<\/p>\n<p>In Japan, the Nikkei 225 rose 0.8 percent while the Topix index added 0.9 percent. South Korea&#8217;s Kospi gained 0.9 percent and Hong Kong&#8217;s Hang Seng index was up 0.9 percent. Chinese mainland shares also traded higher: The Shanghai composite was up 1 percent while the Shenzhen composite added 1.4 percent. Australia&#8217;s ASX 200 was near flat as the heavily weighted financial subindex fell 0.1 percent.<\/p>\n<p>The dollar held gains having snapped its four-day losing streak to a group of six major peers. The dollar index was little changed at 96.738 after rising 0.25 percent on Thursday to bounce back from a nine-day trough of 96.385. The greenback rose as U.S. Treasury yields climbed from two-month lows marked earlier in the week, driven by corporate supply.<\/p>\n<p>The yen showed little response to the Bank of Japan&#8217;s widely expected decision to keep interest rates unchanged. Not surprisingly, the central bank offered a bleaker assessment of exports and output, as global demand waned.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Upcoming Events:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>01:30 PM GMT &#8211; (CAD) Manufacturing Sales m\/m<\/li>\n<li>03:00 PM GMT &#8211; (USD) Prelim UoM Consumer Sentiment<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.icmarkets.com\/education\/forex-news-and-calendar\/\">&amp;more&#8230;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global Markets: Asian Stock Markets : Nikkei up 0.76%, Shanghai Composite up 0.99%, Hang Seng up 0.93%, ASX down 0.07% Commodities : Gold at $1300.85 (+0.44%), Silver at $15.34 (+1.10%), Brent Oil at $67.36 (+0.19%), WTI Oil at $58.72 (+0.19%) Rates : US 10-year yield at 2.621, UK 10-year yield at 1.225, Germany 10-year yield &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/icm-cn-asia.com\/blog\/friday-15th-march-asian-markets-higher-as-uk-parliament-votes-to-delay-brexit\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Friday 15th March: Asian markets higher as UK parliament votes to delay Brexit<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33294,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[339],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-recent-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icm-cn-asia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icm-cn-asia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icm-cn-asia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icm-cn-asia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icm-cn-asia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icm-cn-asia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33295,"href":"https:\/\/icm-cn-asia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33293\/revisions\/33295"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icm-cn-asia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icm-cn-asia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icm-cn-asia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icm-cn-asia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}