{"id":106000,"date":"2019-08-15T03:54:21","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T01:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/08\/15\/shares-fall-steeply-in-asia-as-financial-markets-rocked-by-recession-warnings-business-live\/"},"modified":"2019-08-15T03:54:21","modified_gmt":"2019-08-15T01:54:21","slug":"shares-fall-steeply-in-asia-as-financial-markets-rocked-by-recession-warnings-business-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=106000","title":{"rendered":"Shares fall steeply in Asia as financial markets rocked by recession warnings \u2013 business live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Traders in the Asia-Pacific region are braced for a turbulent day after the inverted US bond yield curve sent alarm bells ringing around the world 2.54am BST Unemployment stayed at 5.2% in July, according to seasonally adjusted figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics released a few minutes ago. But the market was cheered by stats that showed 41,000 jobs were created last month against a forecast of 14,000. The Aussie dollar picked up 0.4% to US67.75c. https:\/\/t.co\/e0cl5ktHIh AUD\/USD jumps 30 pips on the upbeat Australian jobs report 2.47am BST The Hang Seng index has opened down 1.4% this morning. That\u2019s a fall of 365 points today and it takes the index below 25,000 to 24,945.The Hang Seng been battered by concerns about the growing political crisis in the city \u2013 the deepening fears about a slowdown in the Chinese economy won\u2019t help. Related: Trump warns &#8216;good man&#8217; Xi to treat Hong Kong humanely or risk trade deal Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/live\/2019\/aug\/15\/stock-markets-recession-us-china-germany-wall-street-ftse-asx-nikkei-rates-federal-reserve-\" target=\"_blank\">Shares fall steeply in Asia as financial markets rocked by recession warnings \u2013 business live<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Traders in the Asia-Pacific region are braced for a turbulent day after the inverted US bond yield curve sent alarm bells ringing around the world 2.54am BST Unemployment stayed at 5.2% in July, according to seasonally adjusted figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics released a few minutes ago. But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}