{"id":285197,"date":"2026-02-11T05:43:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T05:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/285197\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T05:43:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T05:43:09","slug":"asia-markets-mostly-rise-as-investors-shrug-off-weak-u-s-retail-sales-assess-china-inflation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/285197\/","title":{"rendered":"Asia markets mostly rise as investors shrug off weak U.S. retail sales, assess China inflation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>19 November 2025, China, Shanghai: Boats sail past downtown Shanghai on the Huangpu River. The tallest building on the skyline is the Shanghai Tower (rear). <\/p>\n<p>Bernd von Jutrczenka | Picture Alliance | Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Asia-Pacific markets traded mostly higher Wednesday, continuing their rally despite AI fears and weak economic data spooking U.S. investors. <\/p>\n<p>The U.S. December retail sales report showed that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/02\/10\/december-retail-sales-were-flat-missing-expectations.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">consumer spending was flat<\/a>, missing the 0.4% monthly gain that economists polled by Dow Jones were expecting. <\/p>\n<p>In Asia, investors are assessing the latest data coming out from China. <\/p>\n<p>The country&#8217;s consumer price index\u00a0rose 0.2% in January from a year earlier, China&#8217;s National Bureau of Statistics data showed Wednesday. That&#8217;s below economists&#8217; forecast of 0.4% increase in a Reuters poll, a sign of continued deflationary pressure in the absence of stronger stimulus.<\/p>\n<p>Australia&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/.AXJO\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">S&amp;P\/ASX 200<\/a> was up 1.43%.<\/p>\n<p>South Korea&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/.KS11\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kospi<\/a> rose 0.6%, on pace for a third day of gains, while the small-cap Kosdaq was 0.55% higher. <\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/.HSI\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hang Seng Index<\/a> added 0.13%, while the mainland CSI 300 lost 0.26%.<\/p>\n<p>Japan&#8217;s markets are closed for a public holiday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"19 November 2025, China, Shanghai: Boats sail past downtown Shanghai on the Huangpu River. The tallest building on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[3199,7257,941,114,357,1657,1012,1675,184,3449,85,46,7258,190,1008,3197,3310,7259,1032,2966],"class_list":{"0":"post-285197","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-asia-economy","9":"tag-breaking-news-asia","10":"tag-breaking-news-markets","11":"tag-business","12":"tag-business-news","13":"tag-china","14":"tag-dow-jones-industrial-average","15":"tag-economic-events","16":"tag-economy","17":"tag-hang-seng-index","18":"tag-il","19":"tag-israel","20":"tag-kospi-index","21":"tag-markets","22":"tag-nasdaq-composite","23":"tag-nikkei-225-index","24":"tag-sp-500-index","25":"tag-sp-asx-200","26":"tag-united-states","27":"tag-world-markets"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285197","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=285197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}