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Asia equities slide with US stock futures on China’s AI push; dollar firms – Jan 27 2025

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Index Last Change % Change
trading lower

44,424.25 -140.82 0.32%Negative
trading lower

19,954.30 -99.38 0.50%Negative
trading lower

6,101.24 -17.47 0.29%Negative

 

Index Last Change % Change
trading lower

39,699.76 -232.22 0.58%Negative
trading higher

20,158.16 +91.97 0.46%Positive
trading lower

76,190.46 -329.92 0.43%Negative

Source: LSEG, opens new tab – data delayed by at least 15 minutes

 

Holidays this week

Lunar new year: South Korea is closed Monday and Tuesday, Taiwan is shut all week. Mainland China shut Tuesday until Wednesday of next week.

Australia is closed on Monday for Australia Day.

 

Equities

Nikkei dropped 0.3%, reversing an initial advance. STI lost 0.2%.
Hang Seng rallied 0.9%, China’s CSI 300 added 0.2%.

Forex

USD jumped 0.3% against Chinese yuan in offshore trading, rallied 0.4% & 0.5% versus AUD and NZD respectively.
BTC slid 3.5% to $101,415.12.

Commodities

Crude slumped after Trump on Friday reiterated his call for OPEC to cut oil prices.
Brent dropped 1.2% to $77.60, US crude lost 1.2% to $73.78 a barrel.
Gold sank 0.6% to $2,755.85.
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