Mostly Negative Asian Stocks: The Nikkei 225 Index on the Tokyo Stock Exchange closed the session down 0.96% to 28,489.13 points.
The Shanghai stock exchange is also bad -1%, Hong Kong limits the falls to -0.18%. Sidney did well + 0.48% thanks to the buy on the Rio Tinto miners (+ 4.13%) and BHP + 3.8%, while the Seoul stock exchange fell by 0.21%.
To weigh, the alert from the World Health Organization, which spoke of a boom in new cases at enormous levels, and concerns about US inflation, which jumped 7% in December, at the highest rate since February 1982. , as confirmed by the publication yesterday of the consumer price index.
US futures flat after the slow but positive close on Wall Street, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average up 38 points and the S&P 500 up 0.3%. The Nasdaq Composite was up for a third consecutive session, up 0.2%.
On the Hong Kong stock exchange, the stock of Chinese real estate developer Sunac collapses, -19%, after the announcement of its decision to sell 452 million new shares to the controlling shareholder Sunac International Investment Holdings, for a value of 10 dollars of Hong Kong for share.
The issue will allow the group to raise 4.52 billion Hong Kong dollars, of which – according to Sunac – 50% will be used to repay the loans, while the other half will be used for other corporate objectives.
An even stronger thud for the stock of Genting Hong Kong, a cruise travel operator, plunged 55% after the group announced it may not be able to repay its debts and other obligations.