{"id":419355,"date":"2026-02-11T05:36:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T05:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/419355\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T05:36:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T05:36:07","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\/uk\/419355\/","title":{"rendered":"Asia markets mostly rise as investors shrug off weak U.S. retail sales, assess China inflation"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Bernd von Jutrczenka | Picture Alliance | Getty Images<\/p>\n

Asia-Pacific markets traded mostly higher Wednesday, continuing their rally despite AI fears and weak economic data spooking U.S. investors. <\/p>\n

The U.S. December retail sales report showed that\u00a0consumer spending was flat<\/a>, missing the 0.4% monthly gain that economists polled by Dow Jones were expecting. <\/p>\n

In Asia, investors are assessing the latest data coming out from China. <\/p>\n

The country’s consumer price index\u00a0rose 0.2% in January from a year earlier, China’s National Bureau of Statistics data showed Wednesday. That’s below economists’ forecast of 0.4% increase in a Reuters poll, a sign of continued deflationary pressure in the absence of stronger stimulus.<\/p>\n

Australia’s\u00a0S&P\/ASX 200<\/a> was up 1.43%.<\/p>\n

South Korea’s Kospi<\/a> rose 0.6%, on pace for a third day of gains, while the small-cap Kosdaq was 0.55% higher. <\/p>\n

Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index<\/a> added 0.13%, while the mainland CSI 300 lost 0.26%.<\/p>\n

Japan’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…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419356,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[5754,5753,4117,84,273,891,4126,1278,1294,5748,5749,467,4127,5751,4125,5750,56,54,158,55,4953],"class_list":{"0":"post-419355","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-kospi-index","19":"tag-markets","20":"tag-nasdaq-composite","21":"tag-nikkei-225-index","22":"tag-sp-500-index","23":"tag-sp-asx-200","24":"tag-uk","25":"tag-united-kingdom","26":"tag-united-states","27":"tag-unitedkingdom","28":"tag-world-markets"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}