{"id":48698,"date":"2013-02-26T08:11:05","date_gmt":"2013-02-26T08:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/2013\/02\/26\/237667\/"},"modified":"2024-12-15T13:02:38","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T13:02:38","slug":"nikkei-dives-2-italy-uncertainty-rattles-asia-cnbc-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/2013\/02\/26\/48698\/","title":{"rendered":"Nikkei dives 2%, Italy uncertainty rattles Asia, CNBC reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>YEREVAN, February 26. \/ARKA\/.<\/strong> Asian stock markets tumbled on Tuesday, with Japan leading losses after a general election in Italy pointed to deadlock in parliament and raised fears of a new crisis in the euro zone.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s rather disappointing that we haven&#8217;t had a positive outcome, it looks like we&#8217;re going to end up with a hung parliament situation,&#8221; Paul Bloxham, chief economist for Australia at HSBC told CNBC. &#8220;When you&#8217;re sitting over here in Asia or in Australia, then the disappointment is that there isn&#8217;t a clear path as to how this thing&#8217;s going to resolve itself.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The uncertainty in Italy has infused a degree of volatility back into markets after weeks of trading in a risk-on environment, which has helped stocks in Japan and Australia add 5 percent and 4 percent respectively since the start of the month.<\/p>\n<p>Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke appears before the Senate Banking Committee later in the day and any comments he makes about an early end to the central bank&#8217;s ultra-easy monetary policy may weigh on sentiment further.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Traders will be looking for clues which support the QE3 (quantitative easing) program after last week&#8217;s Fed policy meeting appeared to hint it may end sooner than expected,&#8221; said Jason Hughes, head of premium client management at IG Markets. \u20130&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asian stock markets tumbled on Tuesday, with Japan leading losses after a general election in Italy pointed to deadlock in parliament and raised fears of a new crisis in the euro zone<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","tstyn_error":""},"categories":[12147,9216],"tags":[15503,12682],"class_list":{"0":"post-48698","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-bonds-am-en-en","7":"category-news","8":"tag-atp-2","9":"tag-stocks"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}