Asian shares Archives

May 27, 2026 9:09 AM

Global shares scale new peaks as markets eye shaky US-Iran truce

Asian shares climbed to record highs while oil prices remained elevated on Wednesday, as markets looked for signals that a shaky truce between the United States and Iran will be extended. The dollar held gains from the previous session after Iran sa...

May 15, 2026 9:31 AM

Asian shares fall as US yields hit one-year high

Asian shares came under pressure on Friday as investor euphoria over tech stocks gave way to inflation fears that saw Treasury yields spike to one-year highs and rising bets on a U.S. rate hike this year. Oil prices kept climbing amid the lack of pr...

January 21, 2026 10:16 AM

Asian shares extend selloff as global bond rout fuels fresh anxiety

Asian stocks extended their losses for a third session on Wednesday, undone by heightened tensions over U.S. threats to acquire Greenland ahead of President Donald Trump's Davos speech, while a global bond rout appeared to slow for now. Fears of off...

April 16, 2025 9:11 AM

Asian shares fall as Nvidia hit by U.S. chips curbs, gold hits record

Shares fell in Asia on Wednesday as AI darling Nvidia took a hit from U.S. curbs on chip sales to China, highlighting the damage to come in a tit-for-tat global trade war, while gold hit a record and the dollar stayed under pressure. Data showed tha...

April 3, 2025 9:31 AM

Global stocks slump as US tariffs hit tech hardest

Stocks dived and investors scrambled to the safety of bonds, gold and the yen on Thursday as U.S. President Donald Trump unveiled a bigger-than-expected wall of tariffs around the world's largest economy, upending trade and supply chains. The high-f...

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February 3, 2025 9:00 AM

Asian stocks slump, dollar soars as Trump tariffs trigger trade war fear

Asian stock markets slumped on Monday and U.S. equity futures pointed sharply lower after U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China triggered fears of a broad trade war and hit to global growth. The U.S. dollar shot to a re...

January 27, 2025 4:10 PM

Tech drags global shares lower on China’s AI push; dollar dips

European and Asian shares slumped on Monday as investors weighed the implications of Chinese startup DeepSeek's launch of a free open-source artificial intelligence model to rival OpenAI's ChatGPT. Meanwhile, the dollar dipped as broad U.S. import t...