Key events this week:
- Eurozone consumer confidence, Monday
- Philippines and US military forces commence annual war games near Taiwan and South China Sea, Monday
- ECB President Christine Lagarde speaks, Monday
- Eurozone S&P Global Manufacturing PMI, S&P Global Services PMI, Tuesday
- UK S&P Global, CIPS Manufacturing PMI, Tuesday
- Australia CPI, Wednesday
- Indonesia rate decision, Wednesday
- IBM, Boeing, Meta Platforms earnings, Wednesday
- Malaysia CPI, Thursday
- South Korea GDP, Thursday
- Turkey rate decision, Thursday
- US GDP, wholesale inventories, initial jobless claims, Thursday
- Microsoft, Alphabet, Airbus, Caterpillar earnings, Thursday
- Japan rate decision, Tokyo CPI, inflation and GDP forecasts, Friday
- US personal income and spending, University of Michigan consumer sentiment, Friday
- Exxon Mobil, Chevron earnings, Friday
Some of the main moves in markets:
Stocks
- S&P 500 futures rose 0.2% as of 1:15 p.m. Tokyo time
- Nikkei 225 futures (OSE) rose 0.3%
- Japan’s Topix rose 0.8%
- Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 rose 0.8%
- Hong Kong’s Hang Seng rose 1.7%
- The Shanghai Composite fell 0.5%
- Euro Stoxx 50 futures rose 0.3%
- Nasdaq 100 futures rose 0.3%
Currencies
- The Bloomberg Dollar Spot Index fell 0.1%
- The euro was little changed at $1.0664
- The Japanese yen was little changed at 154.72 per dollar
- The offshore yuan was little changed at 7.2514 per dollar
- The Australian dollar rose 0.3% to $0.6439
Cryptocurrencies
- Bitcoin rose 1.4% to $65,566.04
- Ether rose 1.2% to $3,187.54
Bonds
- The yield on 10-year Treasuries advanced four basis points to 4.66%
- Japan’s 10-year yield advanced three basis points to 0.875%
- Australia’s 10-year yield advanced eight basis points to 4.34%
Commodities
- West Texas Intermediate crude fell 0.8% to $82.51 a barrel
- Spot gold fell 0.9% to $2,371.12 an ounce