{"id":130448,"title":"What happened overnight – Wednesday 17th December 2025","publisher":"Share Talk","author":"sharetalk","published":"2025-12-17T07:28:42+00:00","modified":"2025-12-17T07:28:42+00:00","canonical_url":"https://www.share-talk.com/what-happened-overnight-wednesday-17th-december-2025/","markdown_url":"https://www.share-talk.com/what-happened-overnight-wednesday-17th-december-2025.md","json_url":"https://www.share-talk.com/what-happened-overnight-wednesday-17th-december-2025.json","category":"B2B","categories":["B2B","Blogs","Technology","Technology, Media & Telecoms"],"tags":["AI-focused","Asia","Asia-Pacific index","Asian market","Asian markets","Asian trading","Bank of England","Bank of Japan","Bank of New York","Beijing","bond market","Brent Crude","china","chips","currency","Dow Jones","European Union","Federal Reserve","Hong kong","India","Jakarta","Japan","JP Morgan","Manila","Nikkei","Nvidia","Russia","semiconductor","Sensex","Seoul","shanghai","Shenzhen Composite Index","Singapore","South Korea","Sydney","Taipei","Treasury yields","U.S. bond market","U.S. dollar","U.S. stocks","U.S. Treasury","US dollar","US recession","US treasuries","USA","Wall Street","Wellington","White House"],"featured_image":"https://i0.wp.com/www.share-talk.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/overnight-1-1.webp?fit=750%2C406&quality=80&ssl=1","format":"news","language":"en-GB","content":"Oil prices rebounded after Donald Trump ordered what he described as a “total and complete” blockade of all sanctioned oil tankers entering or leaving Venezuela, injecting fresh geopolitical risk into markets already grappling with demand concerns.\n\nBrent crude rose 1.5% to $59.84 a barrel, paring back sharp losses from Tuesday. Prices had previously fallen on growing optimism that a Russia–Ukraine peace deal could ease sanctions and add to global supply.\n\nGlobal equity markets were mixed following US jobs data. Although employment growth rebounded more strongly than expected in November after a sharp drop in October, the unemployment rate climbed to 4.6%, its highest level in more than four years.\n\nMSCI’s Asia-Pacific index excluding Japan gained 0.4%, while Japan’s Nikkei edged 0.3% higher.\n\nOn Wall Street, stocks mostly finished lower after the rise in unemployment. The S&P 500 slipped 0.2% and the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.6%. The Nasdaq Composite bucked the trend, rising 0.2% after reports that the exchange plans to seek regulatory approval for round-the-clock trading."}