Mainly negative closing for Asian stock exchanges, with the Nikkei 225 index of the Tokyo stock exchange closing the session down 0.90%, at 28,222.48 points.
The Shanghai stock exchange falls by 0.73%, Hong Kong loses 0.40%, Sidney is -0.77%, Seoul is flat, with a variation of + 0.02%.
On Wall Street yesterday, major US equity indices cut their losses late after the Dow Jones plunged to -500 points and the Nasdaq capitulated by more than 2%.
Eventually the Dow Jones cut losses to -162 points (-0.45%), the S&P 500 fell 0.14% and the Nasdaq grabbed, albeit weakly, the positive territory, with + 0.05%. .
Treasury rates retreat, moving to around 1.759% after the flare-up to over 1.8%, sparked by fears of a more aggressive Fed to raise rates, due to continued inflation growth in the United States .
Today, January 11, the attention of the markets will be on the words that will utter the number one of the Federal Reserve Jerome Powell, in the hearing of the banking commission of the US Senate, in view of his reconfirmation as number one of the central bank.