{"id":59934,"date":"2013-08-15T09:33:46","date_gmt":"2013-08-15T09:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/2013\/08\/15\/239123\/"},"modified":"2024-12-15T13:06:29","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T13:06:29","slug":"asian-stocks-snap-rally-as-yen-strengthens-gold-advances-bloomberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/2013\/08\/15\/59934\/","title":{"rendered":"Asian stocks snap rally as yen strengthens, Gold advances: Bloomberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>YEREVAN, August 15. \/ARKA\/.<\/strong> Asian stocks fell, led by Japanese shares, snapping the longest gain for the regional index in six weeks. The yen strengthened versus 15 of 16 major counterparts, while gold and oil rose.<\/p>\n<p>The MSCI Asia Pacific Index dropped 0.5 percent at 1:33 p.m. in Tokyo, the first decline in six days. Japan\u2019s Topix Index retreated 1.5 percent as the yen appreciated 0.4 percent against the U.S. currency. The Bloomberg Dollar Index fell 0.2 percent and Standard &amp; Poor\u2019s 500 Index futures slipped 0.1 percent. Australia\u2019s currency rose 0.6 percent versus the dollar and the euro increased 0.3 percent. Gold climbed 0.3 percent, while crude oil gained for a fifth day in New York.<\/p>\n<p>Japan\u2019s government hasn\u2019t asked for a study into lowering the corporate tax rate, Finance Minister Taro Aso said in Tokyo, refuting a report this week by Nikkei newspaper. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President James Bullard said late yesterday that policy makers should be careful in changing course on their bond-buying program based solely on economic forecasts. The U.S. will report data on jobless claims and consumer prices today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe market\u2019s had a good run over the last few weeks so we\u2019re likely to see a bit of selling pressure today,\u201d Matthew Sherwood, the head of investment markets research in Sydney at Perpetual Investments, which manages about $25 billion, said by phone. \u201cThe jobless claims will be watched as that\u2019s regarded as a very good leading indicator for the U.S.\u201d\u20140&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asian stocks fell, led by Japanese shares, snapping the longest gain for the regional index in six weeks. The yen strengthened versus 15 of 16 major counterparts, while gold and oil rose<\/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":[13490,15860,12617],"class_list":{"0":"post-59934","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-bonds-am-en-en","7":"category-news","8":"tag-asian-stocks","9":"tag-bloomberg-3","10":"tag-gold"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59934","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=59934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}