The Australian emblem is successful beforehand of Christiansborg Palace successful Copenhagen, Denmark, connected January 14, 2024.
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Asia-Pacific markets were acceptable for a mixed unfastened Wednesday aft cardinal Wall Street benchmarks rose, with the Nasdaq Composite closing astatine a caller grounds precocious arsenic tech stocks gained.
Traders successful Asia volition measure user terms information retired of Australia, with ostentation for the 4th ended successful September expected to autumn to 2.9%, down from 3.8% successful the erstwhile quarter.
Australia's S&P/ASX 200 opened 0.23% lower.
Japan's Nikkei 225 futures pointed to a higher unfastened for the market, with the declaration successful Chicago astatine 39,255 and its counterpart successful Osaka astatine 39,160 compared to the index's erstwhile adjacent of 38,903.68.
Hong Kong Hang Seng index futures were astatine 20,746, higher than the index's past adjacent of 20,701.14.
In the U.S., the tech-heavy Nasdaq roseate 0.78% to adjacent astatine a grounds precocious of 18,712.75.
The S&P 500 added 0.16% to adjacent astatine 5,832.92, portion the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 154.52 points, oregon 0.36%, to extremity astatine 42,233.05.
— CNBC's Hakyung Kim and Alex Harring contributed to this report.
U.S. crude lipid edges lowers aft worst time successful 2 years
U.S. crude lipid edged little connected Tuesday, 1 time aft posting the worst regular nonaccomplishment successful 2 years.
The U.S. benchmark West Texas Intermediate declaration fell 17 cents, oregon 0.25%, to $67.21 per barrel, portion planetary benchmark Brent slipped 30 cents, oregon 0.42%, to $71.12 per barrel.
Energy traders breathed a suspiration of alleviation this week aft Israel's long-anticipated retaliatory strikes connected Iran past Friday spared the Islamic Republic's lipid and atomic facilities. The benchmark U.S. crude lipid declaration sold disconnected much than 6%, oregon $4.40, to $67.38 per tube connected Monday.
Oil prices person shed much than 6% truthful acold this week.
— Spencer Kimball
The dollar's worth could wane nether a Trump presidency, capitalist warns
Some investors judge that nether a Trump presidency, higher involvement rates and ostentation could pb to a much costly dollar. But Erik Knutzen, co-chief concern serviceman of Neuberger Berman's Multi-Asset Strategies, says that the dollar could really diminution nether a Trump administration.
"The dollar did rally done the extremity of the twelvemonth aft the astonishment triumph of Trump successful 2016, but the dollar declined successful worth for 2017 erstwhile Trump was enacting the policies that were supposedly going to beryllium much inflationary and origin higher involvement rates," helium said connected CNBC's "The Exchange" connected Tuesday afternoon. "Trump and his cohort really would similar to spot a weaker dollar to enactment the American economy. Yes, the dollar whitethorn person immoderate short-term impetus, but frankly you could astir apt slice that commercialized if Trump is not elected."
Knutzen added that the dollar volition astir apt weaken successful the adjacent word successful the script that Trump loses the November election.
— Lisa Kailai Han
Chipmakers emergence Tuesday
VanEck Semiconductor ETF connected Tuesday
— Hakyung Kim
Gold hits caller grounds high
Gold futures scaled to a caller intraday precocious connected Tuesday, reaching $2,783.10 per ounce.
The precious metallic has been connected a teardrop recently, soaring much than 4% implicit the past month. Over the past 3 months, it's up 17%.
Gold futures successful past 3 months
— Fred Imbert
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