Asian Shares

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  Asian Shares Decline As AI Stocks Fall Amid Calls To Slow Development

  U.S. futures edged lower, while oil prices gained more than 2% as worries grew over global oil supplies after Saudi Arabia shut down a major oil pipeline used to help bypass the Strait of Hormuz after it was attacked.

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  Asia Markets Today | May 8: Nikkei, Kospi Down 1% As Asia Shares Fall On Renewed US-Iran Clashes

  Asia Markets Today | May 8: South Korea's Kospi slipped 0.67% while the small-cap Kosdaq was 0.62% higher. Japan's Nikkei 225 slipped 0.36% amid some profit-taking after hitting a record high on Thursday.

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  Asian Shares Fluctuate After Three-Day Selloff: Markets Wrap

  MSCI’s stocks gauge for Asia Pacific fell around 0.1% after the index had its biggest drop since early April.

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  Asian Shares Gain, Sterling Shaken By UK Election Shock

  The pound shed as much as three U.S. cents at one point in hectic trade, or close to 2 percent, before steadying as the results waxed and waned.

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  Asia Shares Edge Higher, Shake Off Tech Slump On Wall Street

  On Wall Street, tech giants including Apple, Alphabet, Facebook and Microsoft continued to be sold off for the second consecutive day.

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  Asian Stocks Bounce On US Cues Though Dollar Gains May Clip Wings

  MSCI's ex-Japan Asia-Pacific shares index rose 0.3 percent after posting a rare loss in the previous session.

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  Asia Shares On Defensive After Trump's Protectionist Address

  In early Monday trade, the dollar fell 0.7 percent against the yen to 113.86 yen, edging towards its seven-week low of 112.57 yen touched on Wednesday.

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  Asian Shares Wobble As Investors Await Fed Meet, Dollar Dips

  The US central bank is widely expected to hike interest rates for the first time in 2016 at a two-day meeting, with markets pricing in a nearly 100 per cent chance of a quarter percentage point increase to the Fed's target range of 0.25 to 0.50 per cent.

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  Asia Ready For Fed Rate Hike, Anxious On Rate Outlook

  A quarter point move is fully priced in, as are two more hikes next year. Any hint the Federal Reserve may move faster than that would likely send the dollar higher and hurt emerging markets.

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  Asia Struggles For Traction, Dollar Near 14-Year Peak On Fed Rally

  In a move that reverberated across the financial markets, the US central bank on Wednesday raised rates for the first time in a year and hinted at three hikes to follow in 2017, up from the two projected in September.

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  Sensex Down Nearly 50 Points, Metal Stocks Under Pressure

  Tata Motors was the top gainer in Nifty up 1.93 per cent at Rs 472 followed by Tata Motors DVR, Bharti Infratel, Bosch and Zee, which were up between 1-1.5 per cent each.

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  Asian Stocks Slip To 4-Week Low As Higher US Rates Bite

  Hong Kong shares hit a four-month low as the Hong Kong dollar soared in line with the US dollar to which it is pegged, and after insurance shares were hit by a Chinese regulator's warnings.

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  Asian Shares Mixed, Yen Holds Gains After Germany, Turkey Incidents

  The Bank of Japan kept monetary policy steady as widely expected, maintaining its pledge to guide short-term rates at minus 0.1 per cent and the 10-year government bond yield around zero per cent.

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  Dollar Profits From Yield Allure, Nikkei Hits One-Year High

  The dollar revelled in its rapidly widening yield premium, with the US central bank set on a tightening course even as its peers in Europe and Japan act to keep their short-term rates deep in negative territory.

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  Asian Shares Wobble, Knocked By Wall Street Losses

  MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan was slightly higher in early trade, while Japan's Nikkei stock index slumped 0.6 percent.