{"id":36744,"date":"2019-09-26T16:44:11","date_gmt":"2019-09-26T06:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets.com\/blog\/?p=36744"},"modified":"2019-09-26T17:14:07","modified_gmt":"2019-09-26T07:14:07","slug":"thursday-26th-september-investors-question-whether-the-end-of-the-trade-war-is-actually-in-sight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ic-cn-asia.com\/blog\/thursday-26th-september-investors-question-whether-the-end-of-the-trade-war-is-actually-in-sight\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday 26th September: Investors question whether the end of the trade war is actually in sight."},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Global Markets:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Asian Stock Markets : Nikkei up 0.02%, Shanghai Composite down 0.82%, Hang Seng up 0.06%, ASX down 0.49%<\/li>\n<li>Commodities : Gold at $1516.45 (+0.27%), Silver at $18.02 (-0.28%), Brent Oil at $62.24 (-0.24%), WTI Oil at $56.34 (-0.27%)<\/li>\n<li>Rates : US 10-year yield at 1.699, UK 10-year yield at 0.540, Germany 10-year yield at -0.576<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>News &amp; Data:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>(USD) Crude Oil Inventories 2.4M vs -0.3M expected<\/li>\n<li>(USD) New Home Sales 713K vs 652K expected<\/li>\n<li>(GBP) CBI Realized Sales -16 vs -22 expected<\/li>\n<li>(EUR) German 10-y Bond Auction -0.61|2.4 vs -0.70|1.9 previous<\/li>\n<li>(GBP) High Street Lending 42.6K vs 43.2K expected<\/li>\n<li>(CHF) Credit Suisse Economic Expectations -15.4 vs -37.5 previous<\/li>\n<li>(JPY) BOJ Core CPI y\/y 0.40% vs 0.60% expected<\/li>\n<li>(NZD) Official Cash Rate 1.00% vs 1.00% expected<\/li>\n<li>Australia central bank seen easing policy in October, rates seen at 0.5% by early 2020: Reuters poll<\/li>\n<li>Trump Talks Up China As Impeachment Risk Recedes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Markets Update:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Asian stock markets are mostly higher on Thursday as optimism that the U.S. and China will reach a trade deal soon helped offset worries about a U.S. Presidential impeachment. U.S. President Donald Trump said at the United Nations in New York on Wednesday that a deal between the U.S. and China could come sooner \u201cthan you think.\u201d The two largest economies of the world have attempted to find a deal to end their protracted trade dispute which has lasted for more than a year and rattled financial markets globally.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the U.S. and Japan signed a limited trade deal on Wednesday, under which Japan will open new markets to about $7 billion in U.S. agricultural products.<\/p>\n<p>Mainland Chinese shares were lower by the afternoon, with the Shanghai composite slipping 0.8% while the Shenzhen component shed 2%. Hong Kong\u2019s Hang Seng index rose 0.1% as shares of Chinese tech behemoth Tencent added 0.67%.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, the Nikkei 225 in Japan traded flat, while the Topix advanced 0.2% after earlier touching levels not seen since December 2018. Australian shares also fell 0.53% percent as scepticism about an end to the trade war set in.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. dollar index, which tracks the greenback against a basket of its peers, was at 98.876 after touching an earlier high of 98.974. Oil futures rose in Asia in a sign of cautious optimism about global economic prospects, but some investors warned that an end to trade friction is far from certain.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Upcoming Events:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>06:35 AM GMT &#8211; (JPY) BOJ Gov Kuroda Speaks<\/li>\n<li>12:30 PM GMT &#8211; (USD) Final GDP q\/q<\/li>\n<li>01:30 PM GMT &#8211; (EUR) ECB President Draghi Speaks<\/li>\n<li>01:45 PM GMT &#8211; (GBP) BOE Gov Carney Speaks<\/li>\n<li>02:00 PM GMT &#8211; (USD) FOMC Member Bullard Speaks<\/li>\n<li>03:45 PM GMT &#8211; (USD) FOMC Member Clarida Speaks<\/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 0.02%, Shanghai Composite down 0.82%, Hang Seng up 0.06%, ASX down 0.49% Commodities : Gold at $1516.45 (+0.27%), Silver at $18.02 (-0.28%), Brent Oil at $62.24 (-0.24%), WTI Oil at $56.34 (-0.27%) Rates : US 10-year yield at 1.699, UK 10-year yield at 0.540, Germany 10-year yield &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ic-cn-asia.com\/blog\/thursday-26th-september-investors-question-whether-the-end-of-the-trade-war-is-actually-in-sight\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thursday 26th September: Investors question whether the end of the trade war is actually in sight.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36745,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[339],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-recent-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ic-cn-asia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36744","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=36744"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ic-cn-asia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36748,"href":"https:\/\/ic-cn-asia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36744\/revisions\/36748"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ic-cn-asia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ic-cn-asia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ic-cn-asia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ic-cn-asia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}