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Asian markets stall as Wall Street shares fall

US stocks fell on Wednesday on a batch of soft quarterly earnings, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average suffering its worst day in seven weeks after rising to a record peak the previous session.

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Asian markets stall as Wall Street shares fall
A woman walks past an electronic board showing the graphs of the recent movements of Japan''s Nikkei average in Tokyo. Photo: Reuters
Written By: Reuters
Updated: Thu, Oct 26, 2017
08:57 am
Mumbai, Reuters
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Key highlights:
  • Asian stocks stalled on Thursday, weighed as Wall Street shares pulled back from record highs
  • Japan's Nikkei, which had snapped a 16-day winning run the previous day, rose 0.35%
  • US stocks fell on Wednesday on a batch of soft quarterly earnings

Asian stocks stalled on Thursday, weighed as Wall Street shares pulled back from record highs, while the euro stretched gains ahead of a European Central Bank policy meeting at which it could take a major step away from accommodative policy.

MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan slipped 0.05%. Australian stocks dipped 0.2% while South Korea's KOSPI lost 0.1%.

Japan's Nikkei, which had snapped a 16-day winning run the previous day, rose 0.35%.

US stocks fell on Wednesday on a batch of soft quarterly earnings, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average suffering its worst day in seven weeks after rising to a record peak the previous session.

In currency markets, the euro added to overnight gains to reach a six-day high of $1.1820 , prompted by expectations that the ECB would cut back on its bond-buying stimulus and take the biggest step yet in unwinding years of loose monetary policy.=>

The central bank, however, is still concerned about low inflation and is expected to accompany the tapering with an extension of the stimulus in a "less-but-for-longer" move.

"The focal point is how long the ECB decides to spend on tapering its bond buying. If the ECB opts to spend more than six months to taper, it will lead to thoughts that it won`t be able to move onto hiking interest rates until 2019," said Junichi Ishikawa, senior forex strategist at IG Securities in Tokyo.

"The ECB could be seen as dovish in such a case and in turn weigh on the euro."

The dollar was 0.1 % lower at 113.605 yen .=>

The greenback rose to a three-month high of 114.245 yen overnight as the benchmark 10-year Treasury yield spiked to a seven-month peak of 2.475 % .=rr>

But the dollar pared the gains as the Treasury yield retraced its rise amid the drop in Wall Street shares. The 10-year Treasury yield last stood at 2.429 %.

The dollar index against a basket of six currencies was down 0.1 % at 93.601, its lowest in six days.

The pound added to overnight gains and brushed $1.3276 , its highest in 10 days. Sterling climbed almost 1 % the previous day after stronger-than-expected U.K. growth data cemented expectations the Bank of England will raise interest rates next week.=d3>

Another big mover was the Canadian dollar, which slid 1 % overnight to a three-month low of C$1.2816 per dollar after the Bank of Canada left interest rates steady as expected but was seen to have sounded dovish in its policy statement.=d4>

U.S. crude oil futures was 0.1 % lower at $52.13 per barrel following data on Wednesday that showed a surprising increase in U.S. crude inventories.

Brent crude slipped 0.1 % to $58.41 per barrel.

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