{"id":26063,"date":"2018-04-13T11:10:45","date_gmt":"2018-04-13T05:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.icmarkets.com\/blog\/?p=26063"},"modified":"2018-04-16T12:52:35","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T07:22:35","slug":"friday-13th-april-asian-markets-mixed-before-earnings-season-commences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ic-cn-asia.com\/blog\/friday-13th-april-asian-markets-mixed-before-earnings-season-commences\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday 13th April:  Asian markets mixed before earnings season commences"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>\n\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><strong>Global Markets:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Asian Stock Markets : Nikkei up 0.68%, Shanghai Composite down 0.22%, Hang Seng up 0.11%, ASX up 0.26%<\/span>\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Commodities : Gold at $1342.40 (+0.04%), Silver at $16.50 (+0.16%), WTI Oil at $71.94 (-0.11%), Brent Oil at $66.98 (-0.13%)<\/span>\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Rates : US 10-year yield at 2.821, UK 10-year yield at 1.453, Germany 10-year yield at 0.512<\/span>\n\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>\n\t<strong style=\"font-size: 14px;\">News &amp; Data:<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">(CNY) Trade Balance -30B vs 179B expected<\/span>\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">(NZD) Business NZ Manufacturing Index 52.2 vs 53.3 previous<\/span>\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">(USD) Unemployment Claims 233K vs 231K expected<\/span>\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">(CAD) NHPI m\/m -0.20% vs 0.10% expected<\/span>\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">UK action in Syria nears after Theresa May wins Cabinet approval<\/span>\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Would only join TPP if the deal were substantially better than the deal offered to Pres. Obama: Donald Trump<\/span>\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Fed&#39;s Kashkari: We&#39;re not going to keep interest rates low to help the government run up debt<\/span>\n\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>\n\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><strong>Markets Update:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<\/h4>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Another mixed day for Asian equities today, as it pared early gains and caution crept in ahead of the US earnings season. Risk sentiment has bettered after President Trump clarified that while the US is weighing options of a US missile strike on Syria, it might not be completely forthcoming on this.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Chinese equities were lower today, in the wake of mixed data from China which showed March exports unexpectedly fell 2.7 percent from a year earlier while imports grew more than forecast. <\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">ASX is mostly higher across sectors, with banks trading mixed. Japanese equities were supported in the weakness in the yen as a result of the improved risk sentiment. FX sensitive sectors like marine transportation was seen to be the major gainer in the process.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">In FX, yen was at weekly lows to the dollar, after risk sentiment improved. Euro was largely flat. While Crude consolidated earlier strength early in the trade, it is expected to trade lower after President Trump&rsquo;s clarification on Syria.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">In other news, Bitcoin made 14.2% gains on Thursday, the largest daily gains in the past 4 months.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<h4>\n\t<strong style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Upcoming Events:<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">02:00 PM GMT &#8211; (USD) Prelim UoM Consumer Sentiment<\/span>\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;\"><span style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;\"><span style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.icmarkets.com\/education\/forex-news-and-calendar\/\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration-line: none; outline: 0px;\">&amp;more&hellip;<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global Markets: Asian Stock Markets : Nikkei up 0.68%, Shanghai Composite down 0.22%, Hang Seng up 0.11%, ASX up 0.26% Commodities : Gold at $1342.40 (+0.04%), Silver at $16.50 (+0.16%), WTI Oil at $71.94 (-0.11%), Brent Oil at $66.98 (-0.13%) Rates : US 10-year yield at 2.821, UK 10-year yield at 1.453, Germany 10-year yield &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ic-cn-asia.com\/blog\/friday-13th-april-asian-markets-mixed-before-earnings-season-commences\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Friday 13th April:  Asian markets mixed before earnings season commences<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26060,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ic-cn-asia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ic-cn-asia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ic-cn-asia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ic-cn-asia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ic-cn-asia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26063"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ic-cn-asia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26065,"href":"https:\/\/ic-cn-asia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26063\/revisions\/26065"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ic-cn-asia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ic-cn-asia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ic-cn-asia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ic-cn-asia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}