{"id":78018,"date":"2026-09-04T08:42:04","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T08:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2026\/09\/04\/asian-shares-follow-wall-street-higher-as-rate-hike-worries-ebb\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T08:42:04","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T08:42:04","slug":"asian-shares-follow-wall-street-higher-as-rate-hike-worries-ebb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2026\/09\/04\/asian-shares-follow-wall-street-higher-as-rate-hike-worries-ebb\/","title":{"rendered":"Asian Shares Follow Wall Street Higher As Rate-hike Worries Ebb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"divBody\">\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> Asian stocks followed Wall Street higher on Friday as concerns over U.S. interest-rate hikes eased and focus shifted to the all-important U.S. jobs report later in the day.<\/p>\n<p>Economists expect employment to climb by 55,000 jobs in August after a decline of 23,000 jobs in July. The unemployment rate is expected to tick up to 4.2 percent from 4.1 percent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"fade-paragraph\">Brent crude futures fell slightly to around $95 a barrel but were up more than 8 percent so far this week due to renewed U.S.-Iran hostilities and elevated concerns over supply disruptions. <\/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<\/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 Shares Follow Wall Street Higher As Rate-hike Worries Ebb<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2026-09-04 08:42:04<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asian stocks followed Wall Street higher on Friday as concerns over U.S. interest-rate hikes eased and focus shifted to the all-important U.S. jobs report later in the day. Economists expect&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78019,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-asian-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78018","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=78018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/78019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}