{"id":21722,"date":"2025-09-15T00:26:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T00:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/21722\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T00:26:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T00:26:07","slug":"asia-markets-set-to-open-lower-as-investors-watch-u-s-china-talks-in-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/21722\/","title":{"rendered":"Asia markets set to open lower as investors watch U.S.-China talks in Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shanghai urban skyline and the bund, China.<\/p>\n

Comezora | Moment | Getty Images<\/p>\n

Asia-Pacific markets were set to open lower as investors kept an eye on the talks between the U.S. and China in Spain, and await a slate of data from Beijing.<\/p>\n

U.S. and Chinese officials began talks in Madrid Sunday to discuss<\/a> key national security, economic, and trade issues, including the upcoming deadline to divest Chinese short video app TikTok and U.S. tariffs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Delegations led by U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer met with their counterparts, Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng and China’s top trade negotiator, Li Chenggang.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, China is expected to release data on retail sales, fixed asset investment and urban unemployment rate later in the day.<\/p>\n

Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index<\/a> was set to open slightly lower, with the futures contract at 26,380, against the index’s last close of 26,388.16.<\/p>\n

Australia’s ASX\/S&P 200 was poised for a lower open, with the futures contract last traded at 8,804, against the index’s Friday close at 8,864.9.<\/p>\n

Japanese markets were closed for a holiday.<\/p>\n

U.S. equity futures were little changed in early Asian hours as investors brace for a Federal Reserve meeting this week, in hopes that the central bank will cut interest rates when it concludes its meeting Wednesday stateside.<\/p>\n

On Friday stateside, the Nasdaq Composite closed at a fresh record high, securing its second winning week in a row with its 2% advance in the period. The S&P 500 gained 1.6% week to date, posting its best weekly performance since early August. The Dow posted its first\u00a0positive week in three after seeing a week-to-date climb of 1%.<\/p>\n

The strong gains come after the latest economic data showing a weakening labor market and tame inflation spurred Fed rate-cut hopes.<\/p>\n

\u2014 CNBC’s Sarah Min contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shanghai urban skyline and the bund, China. Comezora | Moment | Getty Images Asia-Pacific markets were set to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21723,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[4635,6520,11242,11237,964,72,122,11236,11235,7067,11241,8176,61,5232,60,11238,123,7066,11240,8493,3159,11239,5698,4826,7228,7229],"class_list":["post-21722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-markets","tag-asia-economy","tag-asia-news","tag-australian-dollar-us-dollar-fx-spot-rate","tag-breaking-news-asia","tag-breaking-news-markets","tag-business","tag-business-news","tag-central-banking","tag-currency-markets","tag-dow-jones-industrial-average","tag-dxy-us-dollar-currency-index","tag-hang-seng-index","tag-ie","tag-interest-rates","tag-ireland","tag-kospi-index","tag-markets","tag-nasdaq-composite","tag-nikkei-225","tag-nikkei-225-index","tag-sp-500-index","tag-sp-asx-200","tag-shanghai","tag-usd-jpy","tag-world-economy","tag-world-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}