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Nikkei sell-off, RBA meeting, China PMI, India PMI

August 5, 2024
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Asia-Pacific markets continued the sell-off from last week, while investors awaited key trade data from China and Taiwan this week, as well as central bank decisions from Australia and India.

Japan’s markets led losses in the region as the Nikkei 225 and Topix dropped over 8%. Heavyweight trading houses such as Mitsubishi, Mitsui and Co, Sumitomo and Marubeni all plunged around 10%.

At these levels, both the Nikkei and Topix are nearing bear market territory, having fallen almost 20% from their all-time highs on July 11.

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Nikkei sell-off, RBA meeting, China PMI, India PMI

Monday’s decline follows Friday’s rout when Japan’s Nikkei 225 and Topix fell more than 5% and 6%, respectively. The broader Topix marked its worst day in eight years, while the Nikkei marked its worst day since March 2020.

In Monday trading, the yen also strengthened to its highest level against the dollar since January, and was last trading at 142.77.

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China’s service sector expanded at a faster pace in July, with the country’s purchasing managers’ index climbing to 52.1 in July, up from 51.2 in June.

The Caixin survey said the acceleration of growth was due to faster new business growth, “supported by sustained improvements in underlying demand conditions and an expansion of services offerings.”

Taiwan’s benchmark index, the Taiwan Weighted Index, was down almost 8%, while Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 fell 3.05%.

The Reserve Bank of Australia kicks off its two-day monetary policy meeting Monday. Economists polled by Reuters expect the central bank to hold rates steady at 4.35%, but markets will monitor the monetary policy statement for clarity on whether the RBA is still considering a rate hike.

South Korea’s Kospi was down 6.66%, while the Kosdaq fell 6.78%.

Hong Kong Hang Seng index saw the smallest loss in Asia, down 0.22%, while mainland China’s CSI 300 was up 0.24%, the only major index in positive territory.

On Friday in the U.S., stocks fell sharply as a much weaker-than-anticipated jobs report for July ignited worries that the economy could be falling into a recession.

The Nasdaq was the first of the three major benchmarks to enter correction territory, down more than 10% from its record high. The S&P 500 and Dow were 5.7% and 3.9% below their all-time highs, respectively.

The S&P 500 dropped 1.84%, while the Nasdaq Composite lost 2.43%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 610.71 points, or 1.51%.

—CNBC’s Pia Singh and Hakyung Kim contributed to this report.

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