{"id":75948,"date":"2026-07-17T03:03:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T03:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2026\/07\/17\/asian-markets-trade-mostly-lower-79\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T03:03:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T03:03:25","slug":"asian-markets-trade-mostly-lower-79","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2026\/07\/17\/asian-markets-trade-mostly-lower-79\/","title":{"rendered":"Asian Markets Trade Mostly Lower"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div><p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"divBody\">\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> Asian stock <span class=\"landLinks\">markets<\/span> are trading mostly lower on Friday, following the broadly negative cues from Wall Street overnight, dragged by markets in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan amid renewed weakness among technology stocks which mirrored their peers on tech-heavy Nasdaq on valuations of AI-related chipmakers. Escalating tensions in the Middle East also continued to weigh on market sentiment. Asian markets ended mostly lower on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"fade-paragraph\">The escalation of tension between the U.S. and Iran pushed oil prices higher and kept inflationary pressures and interest rate concerns in focus.<\/p>\n<div class=\"paywall-wrapper\">\n<p><i class=\"bi bi-lock-fill\"\/> Subscribe to continue reading the article.<\/p>\n<p>This article is available exclusively to RTT Biotech Investor and Intelligent Investor subscribers. Subscribe with a RTTNews subscription.<\/p>\n<p>Start Free Trial<\/p>\n<p>FREE 7-Day Trial &#8211; No Payment Required<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Market Analysis<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n        window.fbAsyncInit = function () {\n            FB.init({\n                status: true,\n                cookie: true,\n                xfbml: true\n            });\n        };\n        (function (d) {\n            var js, id = 'facebook-jssdk'; if (d.getElementById(id)) { return; }\n            js = d.createElement('script'); js.id = id; js.async = true;\n            js.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js\";\n            d.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(js);\n        }(document));\n    <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>Asian Markets Trade Mostly Lower<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2026-07-17 03:03:25<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asian stock markets are trading mostly lower on Friday, following the broadly negative cues from Wall Street overnight, dragged by markets in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan amid renewed weakness&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75949,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.unsplash.com\/photo-1535139262971-c51845709a48?ixid=MXwxMjA3fDB8MHxwaG90by1wYWdlfHx8fGVufDB8fHw=&ixlib=rb-1.2.1&auto=format&fit=crop&w=1950&q=80","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-asian-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/75949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}