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Asian shares sink on banking jitters, US economic concerns

Global Economy

Reuters
27 April, 2023, 10:20 am
Last modified: 27 April, 2023, 10:22 am

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Asian shares sink on banking jitters, US economic concerns

Reuters
27 April, 2023, 10:20 am
Last modified: 27 April, 2023, 10:22 am
Photo: Collected
Photo: Collected

Asian shares extended losses on Thursday as troubles at US lender First Republic Bank FRC.N continued to unnerve investors amid concerns that growth in the world's biggest economy could very well surprise to the downside.

MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan were 0.3% lower on Thursday, while Japan's Nikkei lost 0.4%. China's blue chips were flat, but Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index slid 0.3%.

Geopolitics also cast a pall over markets. US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said on Wednesday that Chinese cloud computing companies like Huawei Cloud and Alibaba 9988.HK division Alibaba Cloud could pose a threat to US security and vowed to review a request to add them to an export control list.

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But tech giants bucked the gloom, with Nasdaq futures NQcv1 up 0.4% in early Asian hours as Facebook owner Meta Osoared 12% after the bell with its earnings beat. Intel and Amazon will report their results later today.

Nomura 8604.T shares fell more than 7% early on Thursday after Japan's biggest brokerage posted a sharp fall in quarterly net profit after worries about a global banking crisis roiled markets and hit its investment banking business.

Overnight, in a brutal sell-off, First Republic Bank' market value briefly sank as much as 41% to about $888 million, under $1 billion for the first time, a far cry from its peak of more than $40 billion in November 2021.

Investors are waiting to see whether it can find buyers for assets and engineer a turnaround after CNBC reported that US government officials are currently unwilling to intervene.

"First Republic is a bank it would seem to soon be no more. As the bank attempts all manner of rescue strategies it continues to slide relentlessly," said Clifford Bennett, chief economist at ACY Securities.

"It is a case of the incredible shrinking bank. Until, in the end, it likely just simply ceases to exist."

Overnight, Nasdaq notched a 0.5% gain on tech, while the S&P 500 and the Dow were pulled lower by weakness in economically sensitive sectors, hinting at mounting recession jitters.

Data showed that new orders for key US-manufactured capital goods fell more than expected in March, suggesting that business spending on equipment was likely a drag on economic growth in the first quarter.

The Atlanta Federal Reserve's GDPNow, which tracks how incoming data influences estimated gross domestic product (GDP) for the current quarter, showed that the estimate for growth is now at an annualised 1.1%, sharply down from 2.5% just a week ago.

That suggests there may be a downside risk to US first-quarter GDP data, due later on Thursday, with analysts polled by Reuters tipping an expansion of 2%. Wells Fargo lowered its forecast for US GDP growth by 100 basis points to a 0.8% rise.

Fed funds futures are pricing in a chance of about 80% that the Federal Reserve will hike interest rates by 25 basis points (bps) at its May meeting next week, while factoring in expected rate cuts of 45 bps by the end of the year.

In the currency markets, moves were largely muted. The euro was hovering close to its highest level in over a year at $1.104, benefiting from bets that the economic outlook for Europe could be on the upside after Germany raised its economic forecast for growth this year.

The dollar index =USD, which measures the currency against six major rivals, dropped to 101.4 on fresh concerns over a US slowdown.

US Treasuries were steady, with the two-year yields holding at 3.9345%, and ten-years at 3.4391%. One-month Treasury yields tumbled ahead of a possible Washington vote on the US debt ceiling.

Oil recovered some ground on Thursday after tumbling almost 4% on recession fears. US crude CLc1 futures edged up 0.3% to $74.5 per barrel, while Brent crude LCOc1 futures rose 0.5% to $78.09 per barrel.

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