Japan +0.20%.
Porcelain +0.02%.
Hong Kong +0.05%. The Hong Kong central bank follows the Fed and raises its base rate 25bp to 5%, as expected.
Australia +0.13%. Australian data: December construction approvals +18.5% m/m (+1.0% forecast, prior -9.0%).
India -0.07%.
Overnight on Wall Street, the major stock indices are closing highest on the day with the NASDAQ leading the way with a 2% gain. The S&P is up 1%, while the Dow Industrial Average is closing almost unchanged. The Dow and Rosen Industrial Average 6.9 points or 0.02% to 34092.97; the S&P Index rose 42.61 points, or 1.05%, to 4,119.20; NASDAQ rose 231.78 points or 2.00% to 11816.33.
South Korea’s January CPI is much more positive at +0.8% m/m (+0.5% expected, +0.2% prior).
New Zealand Data – December 2022 Building Permits -7.2% m/m (previously +6.7%).
BOE and ECB protagonists of today’s agenda.
The Federal Reserve raised benchmark overnight loan rates by 25 basis points, or 0.25 percentage points, matching investor expectations. The increase brings the Fed’s target range to 4.5-4.75%, the highest level since 2007.
Oil prices rose in early Asian trading on Thursday after the US Federal Reserve raised interest rates by 25 basis points, sending the dollar lower.
Brent Crude Futures were up 56 cents, or 0.7%, at $83.40 a barrel, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures were up 65 cents, or 0.8%, at $77.05. the barrel.
Gold prices extended their gains on Thursday to touch their highest level in more than nine months, after the Federal Reserve raised interest rates by 25 basis points and comments by Chairman Jerome Powell were read as dovish by the market. .
Spot gold was up 0.2% at $1,953.76 an ounce as of 0206 GMT after touching its highest level since April 2022 early in the session. usa gold futures increased 1.3% to $1,967.50.
Elsewhere, silver point gained 1% to $24.22 an ounce, climbing a one-week high.
Platinum rose 0.7% to $1,010.92 and palladium rose 0.3% to $1,674.03.
US futures lower. dow jones -0.35%; S&P 500 -0.33%; nasdaq -0.23%.
