{"id":70743,"date":"2025-03-11T17:54:21","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T06:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icmarkets.com.au\/blog\/?p=70743"},"modified":"2025-08-06T15:24:52","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T05:24:52","slug":"tuesday-11th-march-2025-asia-pacific-markets-decline-amid-u-s-recession-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets.com.au\/blog\/tuesday-11th-march-2025-asia-pacific-markets-decline-amid-u-s-recession-fears\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday 11th March 2025: Asia-Pacific Markets Decline Amid U.S. Recession Fears"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><br \/>Global Markets:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>&nbsp;Asian Stock Markets : Nikkei down 0.71%, Shanghai Composite down 0.32%, Hang Seng down 0.81% ASX down 0.91%<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Commodities : Gold at $2902.35 (0.10%), Silver at $32.5 (0.18%), Brent Oil at $69.25 (-0.05%), WTI Oil at $65.88 (-0.14%)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Rates : US 10-year yield at 4.183, UK 10-year yield at 4.645, Germany 10-year yield at 2.8250<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">News &amp; Data:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>(JPY) Final GDP q\/q 0.6%&nbsp; to 0.7% expected<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Markets Update:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Asia-Pacific markets fell on Tuesday, following losses in the U.S. driven by concerns over tariff policies and a potential recession. Japan\u2019s Nikkei 225 dropped 1.18%, recovering from deeper losses, while the Topix index declined 1.64%. Major losers included Konica Minolta (-7.52%) and Sumitomo Electric Industries (-5.79%). Japan\u2019s revised Q4 GDP grew 2.2% annually, below economists&#8217; expectations and the previous 2.8% estimate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>South Korea\u2019s Kospi fell 1.19%, with the Kosdaq down 0.88%. Hong Kong\u2019s Hang Seng dropped 0.75%, while China\u2019s CSI 300 slid 0.66%. Taiwan\u2019s Taiex index declined 1.61%, recovering from an earlier 3% drop. Australia\u2019s S&amp;P\/ASX 200 closed 0.91% lower at 7,890.10, reversing gains from the previous session. India\u2019s Nifty 50 remained flat, while the BSE Sensex slipped 0.27% in early trade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the U.S., stocks tumbled overnight on fears that Trump\u2019s tariff policy could trigger a recession. The S&amp;P 500 dropped 2.7%, touching its lowest point since September. The Nasdaq Composite fell 4%, marking its worst session since September 2022, while the Dow Jones declined 2.08% to 41,911.71. The S&amp;P 500 is now 8.7% below its February 19 all-time high, while the Nasdaq Composite is down nearly 14%. A 10% drop is considered a correction on Wall Street.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Upcoming Events:&nbsp;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>02:00 PM GMT &#8211; USD JOLTS Job Openings<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global Markets: News &amp; Data: Markets Update: Asia-Pacific markets fell on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":71952,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[196,215,339],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fundamental-analysis","category-market-analysis","category-recent-posts"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70743"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70748,"href":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70743\/revisions\/70748"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}