{"id":77109,"date":"2022-12-14T13:02:50","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T09:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/?p=77109"},"modified":"2022-12-14T13:02:52","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T09:02:52","slug":"nikkei-closed-at-a-two-week-high-amid-hopes-of-a-slowdown-in-us-interest-rate-hikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/nikkei-closed-at-a-two-week-high-amid-hopes-of-a-slowdown-in-us-interest-rate-hikes\/12\/14\/market-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Nikkei closed at a two-week high amid hopes of a slowdown in US interest rate hikes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Japan&#8217;s Nikkei average closed at a two-week high on Wednesday, tracking Wall Street&#8217;s gains as lower-than-expected US inflation data reinforced expectations that the Federal Reserve may ease the pace of interest rate hikes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Nikkei rose 0.72% to 28,156.21, its highest close since December 1. The broader Topix index rose 0.6 percent to 1,977.42.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>US stocks rose overnight on Tuesday after a small unexpected increase in consumer prices boosted optimism that the Federal Reserve would soon reverse its decisions to raise interest rates to curb inflation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Big tech companies led the Nikkei index higher, with chipmaker Tokyo Electron Co rising 1.9 percent, giving the index the biggest boost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The aviation sector was the biggest loser among the industrial groups on the stock exchange, which fell 0.9 percent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan&#8217;s Nikkei average closed at a two-week high on Wednesday, tracking Wall Street&#8217;s gains as lower-than-expected US inflation data reinforced expectations that the Federal Reserve may ease the pace of interest rate hikes. The Nikkei rose 0.72% to 28,156.21, its highest close since December 1. The broader Topix index rose 0.6 percent to 1,977.42. US &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":71426,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,36],"tags":[7211,6877,6928,6882],"class_list":["post-77109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-global-stock-markets","category-market-updates","tag-currencies","tag-dollar","tag-euro","tag-forex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77110,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77109\/revisions\/77110"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}