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November 12, 2021

Stocks retreat in Asia as China inflation pushes higher

Urvi Srivastava Economic Trends China, consumer price index, inflation, stocks

Asian shares fell Wednesday, tracking Wall Street’s retreat, with Chinese benchmarks leading the decline after the government reported a surge in inflation in October.

China’s consumer price index, a main measure of inflation, rose 1.5% in October, up from 0.7% the month before, the National Bureau of Statistics reported.

The surge to a 13-month high was driven mainly by a jump in prices for food and fuel, it said.

Producer prices, or wholesale prices, climbed 13.5%, adding to worries that price pressures might limit the central bank’s ability to adjust its policies to bolster growth.

Hong Kong’s Hang Seng dropped 1% to 24,575.71, while the Shanghai Composite index lost 0.8% to 3,479.31.

But the latest numbers were exaggerated by low comparative data from last year and underlying price pressures remain low, Julian Evans-Pritchard of Capital Economics said in a report.

We continue to think that consumer price inflation will remain below 2% in the coming quarters and that inflation is unlikely to be a major constraint on the PBOC’s ability to loosen monetary policy,” he said.

Elsewhere in Asia, Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 lost 0.6% to 29,106.78 and the Kospi in South Korea declined 1.1% to 2,929.81.

Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 edged 0.1% lower, to 7,423.90.

On Tuesday on Wall Street, stocks ended moderately lower, breaking an eight-day winning streak that had been fuelled by strong company earnings and economic data.

The S&P 500 index lost 0.4% to 4,685.25. The last time the S&P 500 had eight straight days of gains was April 2019.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.3%, ending at 36,319.98 and the Nasdaq lost 0.6%, to 15,886.54.

Tesla lost 12% after its founder Elon Musk said he would sell 10% of his holdings in the electric car maker, based on the results of a poll he conducted on Twitter.

The company’s stock is down more than 16% so far this week, but up 45% so far this year.

Meanwhile PayPal a company co-founded by Musk more than two decades earlier dropped 11% after the company’s cut its full-year outlook and revenue forecasts amid rising competition from other financial technology companies like Square, Affirm and even traditional banks.

Robinhood fell 3.4% after the popular trading app reported a data breach the day before.

A decline in bond yields pulled banks’ stock prices lower. Lenders rely on higher yields to charge more lucrative interest.

The yield on the 10-year Treasury fell to 1.44% from 1.49% late Monday.

Inflation is weighing on U.S. markets as well: the Labour Department reported Tuesday that inflation at the wholesale level rose 8.6% in October from a year earlier, matching September’s record annual gain.

Many industries are facing higher costs for raw materials and energy while contending with supply chain problems.

That has been cutting into their operations and prompting them to raise prices on finished goods, which in turn has been making products and services more costly for consumers.

The Labour Department will release its Consumer Price Index for October on Wednesday, giving a more detailed picture on how inflation is impacting consumers.

The latest round of earnings is nearing its end, but investors still have several big corporate report cards to review.

Walt Disney will report its results on Wednesday. Tapestry, the owner of Coach and other luxury brands, will report its results on Thursday.

Benchmark U.S. crude oil gained 23 cents to 84.38 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. It jumped 2.22 on Tuesday.

Brent crude, the basis for international pricing, added 47 cents to 85.25 per barrel.

The U.S. dollar rose to 112.90 Japanese yen from 112.86 yen. The euro weakened to 1.1579 from 1.1595.

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