{"id":38519,"date":"2020-01-14T18:24:52","date_gmt":"2020-01-14T07:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets.com\/blog\/?p=38519"},"modified":"2020-01-14T18:24:52","modified_gmt":"2020-01-14T07:24:52","slug":"tuesday-14th-january-asian-markets-higher-positive-sentiment-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icm-cn-asia.com\/blog\/tuesday-14th-january-asian-markets-higher-positive-sentiment-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday 14th January: Asian markets higher &#8211; positive sentiment continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Global Markets:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Asian Stock Markets : Nikkei up 0.73%, Shanghai Composite down 0.28%, Hang Seng down 0.14%, ASX up 0.85%<\/li>\n<li>Commodities : Gold at $1539.75 (-0.70%), Silver at $17.73 (-1.49%), Brent Oil at $64.30 (+0.16%), WTI Oil at $58.12 (+0.07%)<\/li>\n<li>Rates : US 10-year yield at 1.858, UK 10-year yield at 0.749, Germany 10-year yield at -0.191<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>News &amp; Data:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>(CNY) Trade Balance 329B vs 315B expected<\/li>\n<li>(CNY) USD-Denominated Trade Balance 46.8B vs 45.8B expected<\/li>\n<li>(NZD) NZIER Business Confidence -21 vs -40 previous<\/li>\n<li>(GBP) Manufacturing Production m\/m -1.70% vs -0.30% expected<\/li>\n<li>(GBP) GDP m\/m -0.30% vs 0.00% expected<\/li>\n<li>CFTC Tarbert: Phase One Trade Deal Signing Will Be &#8216;Immense Success&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>China\u2019s Trade data (CNY): Imports and exports jump sharply in Decembe<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Markets Update:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Asian stock markets are mostly higher on Tuesday following the record highs overnight on Wall Street and as investor sentiment improved after the U.S. removed China from a list of currency manipulators ahead of the signing of a phase one trade deal between the two countries on Wednesday. Chinese Vice Premier Liu He is scheduled to visit Washington to sign the deal.<\/p>\n<p>The Nikkei 225 climbed 0.7% and the Topix index was up 0.3% after Japanese markets returned from a public holiday on Monday. Shares of technology conglomerate Softbank rose 3.2%.<\/p>\n<p>The Shanghai composite and the Shenzhen composite were trading below the flatline, both down 0.3%. Hong Kong\u2019s Hang Seng index declined 0.1%. Australia\u2019s S&amp;P\/ASX 200 was up 0.9% as major miners gained.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. dollar index, which tracks the greenback against a basket of its peers, was last at 97.373, falling back from a high of 97.380 earlier. Crude oil prices declined sharply on Monday amid easing worries about U.S.-Iran tensions, resulting in the futures contract settling at their lowest level in about six weeks. Oil prices were little changed in the morning of Asia trading hours<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Upcoming Events:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>01:30 PM GMT &#8211; (USD) CPI m\/m<\/li>\n<li>01:30 PM GMT &#8211; (USD) Core CPI m\/m<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.icmarkets.com\/education\/forex-news-and-calendar\/\">&amp;more&#8230;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global Markets: Asian Stock Markets : Nikkei up 0.73%, Shanghai Composite down 0.28%, Hang Seng down 0.14%, ASX up 0.85% Commodities : Gold at $1539.75 (-0.70%), Silver at $17.73 (-1.49%), Brent Oil at $64.30 (+0.16%), WTI Oil at $58.12 (+0.07%) Rates : US 10-year yield at 1.858, UK 10-year yield at 0.749, Germany 10-year yield &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/icm-cn-asia.com\/blog\/tuesday-14th-january-asian-markets-higher-positive-sentiment-continues\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tuesday 14th January: Asian markets higher &#8211; positive sentiment continues<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":38520,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[339],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38519","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\/38519","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icm-cn-asia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icm-cn-asia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38521,"href":"https:\/\/icm-cn-asia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38519\/revisions\/38521"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icm-cn-asia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icm-cn-asia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icm-cn-asia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icm-cn-asia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}