{"id":239146,"date":"2026-01-15T09:18:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T09:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/239146\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T09:18:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T09:18:10","slug":"asian-shares-are-mostly-lower-and-oil-sinks-2-after-trump-says-iran-stopped-killings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/239146\/","title":{"rendered":"Asian shares are mostly lower and oil sinks $2 after Trump says Iran stopped killings"},"content":{"rendered":"

HONG KONG — Asian shares were mostly lower and U.S. futures also fell Thursday after Wall Street retreated,<\/a> dragged down by falls in Big Tech stocks.<\/p>\n

Oil prices fell more than $2 a barrel after U.S. President Donald Trump said he was told \u201con good authority\u201d that plans for executions in Iran have stopped<\/a>, even as Tehran has signaled fast trials and executions<\/a> ahead in its crackdown on protesters.<\/p>\n

U.S. benchmark crude fell $2, or 3.3%, to $59.88 per barrel. Brent crude, the international standard, shed $2.12, or 3.2%, to $64.40 per barrel.<\/p>\n

In Asian trading, Tokyo\u2019s Nikkei 225 slipped 0.9% to 53,863.84, with technology-related stocks trading lower. SoftBank Group fell 5.6%, testing equipment maker Advantest fell 4.1% and chip maker Tokyo Electron fell 3.3%.<\/p>\n

Shares of machinery and equipment maker Toyota Industries rose 6% following reports that automaker Toyota Motor has raised its buyout offer for the company to 18,800 yen ($118.61) per share.<\/p>\n

Hong Kong\u2019s Hang Seng dropped 0.6% to 26,850.78. Hong Kong-listed shares of Chinese online travel platform Trip.com sank more than 20% after Beijing said it had opened an antitrust investigation into the group. The Shanghai Composite index fell 0.6%, to 4,101.52.<\/p>\n

South Korea\u2019s Kospi gained 0.5% to 4,747.85.<\/p>\n

In Australia, the S&P\/ASX 200 climbed 0.3% to 8,851.00.<\/p>\n

Taiwan\u2019s Taiex fell 0.6%. Taiwan\u2019s leading chip maker TSMC is expected to post strong quarterly profits in its earnings announcements on Thursday.<\/p>\n

The futures for the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average were 0.1% lower. <\/p>\n

On Wednesday, the S&P 500 dipped 0.5% to 6,926.60, for its second straight loss<\/a>. The Dow slipped 0.1% to 49,149.63. The Nasdaq composite slipped 1% to 23,471.75.<\/p>\n

Big Tech stocks were among those weighing on performance — even as the majority of stocks on Wall Street rose — in part as investors dialed back from the artificial intelligence frenzy and as some critics warned their stocks had become overvalued.<\/p>\n

Shares of Nvidia declined 1.4%, and chip maker Broadcom fell 4.2%.<\/p>\n

Shares at several banks also fell. Wells Fargo sank 4.6% after it reported weaker-than-expected quarterly profit and revenue. Bank of America was down 3.8%, and Citigroup slipped 3.3%.<\/p>\n

Exxon Mobil and other oil companies were among those keeping the S&P 500 from heavier losses. Exxon Mobil was up 2.9%, and Chevron rose 2.1%.<\/p>\n

Investors sought safe-haven assets as geopolitical uncertainties remain elevated. The prices of gold fell back on Thursday by 0.8%, but was still close to its previous record levels.<\/p>\n

In the bond market, the yield on the U.S. 10-year Treasury fell to 4.14%, down from 4.18% late Tuesday, as investors turned to investments deemed safer. Bond prices rise as yields fall.<\/p>\n

In other dealings early Thursday, the dollar rose to 158.63 Japanese yen from 158.46 yen.<\/p>\n

The euro was trading at $1.1636, down from $1.1645. <\/p>\n

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AP Business Writer Stan Choe contributed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HONG KONG — Asian shares were mostly lower and U.S. futures also fell Thursday after Wall Street retreated,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239147,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[128990,127,114,9835,122,42,43,3136,9512,40,38,41,39,917,12526,126],"class_list":["post-239146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-128990","tag-article","tag-business","tag-financial-markets","tag-general-news","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-semiconductor-manufacturing","tag-stocks-and-bonds","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-u-s-news","tag-washington-news","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}