Asia-Pacific Market Recap: Asian Fixed Income Markets & Equities Fall

Market Updates | Written by CEP News | Jul 01 08 10:15 GMT |
(CEP News) - Asia-Pacific fixed income markets are declining and equities closed lower with yields on Australian 10-year bonds up 4.7 bps to 6.49% and Japanese 10-year government bonds up 7.9 bps to 1.68%.

Sydney's S&P ASX 200 closed down 76.40 points to 5138.9.

The Japanese Nikkei closed down 18.18 points to 13463.2 and the Hang Seng up 59.66 points to 22102.01 .

Yields on three-year Australian bonds were down 4.8 bps to 7.78 and the Australian 90-day September 08 contract was up 2.0 ticks to 92.13.

The Euroyen September 08 contract was flat at 99.13.

The Australian dollar was down 0.19 cents to 0.9567 against the USD and down 0.71 cents to 0.9719 against the Canadian dollar.

Against the yen, the U.S. dollar was down 0.76 points to 105.46 and the Canadian dollar was down 0.17 points to 103.82.

The euro was up 0.20 cents to 1.5780 USD.

All data taken at 6 a.m. EDT.

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