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Global Market: Asian shares dip on Hong Kong protest, Argentine peso crash rattle investors

Global Market: Asian shares fell on Tuesday as fears about a drawn out Sino-US trade war, protests in Hong Kong and a crash in Argentina`s peso currency drove investors to safe harbours.

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Global Market: Asian shares dip on Hong Kong protest, Argentine peso crash rattle investors
Global Market: MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan was down 0.26 pre cent while Japan's Nikkei tumbled 1.28 per cent. Photo: Reuters

Global Market: Asian shares fell on Tuesday as fears about a drawn out Sino-US trade war, protests in Hong Kong and a crash in Argentina`s peso currency drove investors to safe harbours like bonds, gold, and the yen. MSCI`s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan was down 0.26% while Japan`s Nikkei tumbled 1.28%.

The selling in regional markets came as Wall Street stocks took a beating on Monday, with the S&P 500 losing 1.23%.

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Sentiment was already weak due to increasing signs that the United States and China will not quickly resolve their year-long trade war. Markets were hit with further turbulence after protesters managed to close down Hong Kong`s airport on Monday.

Traders were also on edge after market-friendly Argentine President Mauricio Macri suffered a mauling in presidential primaries, increasing the risk of a return to interventionist economic policies.

Benchmark 10-year Treasury yields were near the lowest in almost three years, gold was pinned close to six-year highs, and the yen was within a whisker of a seven-month peak versus the dollar in a sign of the heightened anxiety in financial markets already battered by global growth woes.

"The protests in Hong Kong are negative for stocks, which were already in an adjustment phase because there is talk that the trade war will trigger a recession," said Kiyoshi Ishigane, chief fund manager at Mitsubishi UFJ Kokusai Asset Management Co.

"Long-term rates will continue to fall, and stocks will adjust lower, but this is temporary. Major central banks are cutting rates, which will eventually provide economic support."

U.S. stock futures were 0.19% higher early in Asia, which may provide some respite to anxious markets. Analysts also said that trading could be subdued as many investors are off for summer holidays. Yet, there was no shortage of gloomy news for investors looking to catch their breath from several months of market ructions.

The Argentine peso collapsed overnight, falling to 55.85 to the dollar, after voters snubbed Macri by giving the opposition a surprisingly bigger-than-expected victory in Sunday`s primary election.

The Merval stock index crashed 30% and declines of between 18-20 cents in Argentina`s benchmark 10-year bonds left them trading at around 60 cents on the dollar or even lower.

Refinitiv data showed Argentine stocks, bonds and the peso had not recorded this kind of simultaneous fall since the South American country`s 2001 economic crisis and debt default.

The grim backdrop was enough to push investors into safe-havens, and U.S. Treasury yields dropped across the board on Monday as trade worries and political tensions supported safe-haven assets. 

In Asia on Tuesday benchmark 10-year Treasuries yields were 1.6505%. On August 7 yields had skidded to 1.5950%, the lowest since October 3, 2016.

Hong Kong`s airport, the world`s busiest cargo airport, reopened on Tuesday, which could ease some concern about the immediate economic impact of protests over the past two months. 

The protests began in opposition to a bill allowing extraditions to mainland China but have quickly morphed into the biggest challenge to China`s authority over the city since it took Hong Kong back from Britain in 1997.

Spot gold held onto overnight gains to trade at $1.511.31 per ounce, near the highest in six years.

The yen last fetched 105.37 per dollar, and was within striking distance of 105.03, its strongest since the January 3 flash crash.

Oil prices edged slightly lower in Asian trading as expectations that major producers will continue to reduce supplies ran into worries about sluggish economic growth.

U.S. West Texas Intermediate futures fell 0.15% to $54.85 a barrel. 

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Written By: Reuters
Updated: Tue, Aug 13, 2019
08:20 am
New Delhi, Reuters
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