{"id":126314,"title":"What happened overnight – Wednesday 27th August 2025","publisher":"Share Talk","author":"sharetalk","published":"2025-08-27T06:22:35+00:00","modified":"2025-08-27T06:23:02+00:00","canonical_url":"https://www.share-talk.com/what-happened-overnight-wednesday-27th-august-2025/","markdown_url":"https://www.share-talk.com/what-happened-overnight-wednesday-27th-august-2025.md","json_url":"https://www.share-talk.com/what-happened-overnight-wednesday-27th-august-2025.json","category":"B2B","categories":["B2B","Blogs","Business & Support Services","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 recession","US treasuries","USA","Wall Street","Wellington","White House"],"featured_image":"https://i0.wp.com/www.share-talk.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/overnight-1.webp?fit=750%2C406&quality=80&ssl=1","format":"news","language":"en-GB","content":"**Asian Markets Edge Higher as Wall Street Holds Near Record Highs**\n\nAsian shares posted modest gains on Wednesday, following a choppy session in the U.S. that left Wall Street benchmarks just shy of record levels.\n\nIn premarket trading, U.S. stocks nudged higher as investors looked ahead to earnings from **Nvidia**, due after the New York close. The semiconductor giant has become the bellwether for the artificial intelligence trade, and its quarterly results are widely expected to reveal whether markets are being fuelled by genuine technological momentum or overhyped speculation.\n\nAcross Asia, markets mostly advanced:\n\n-\n**Japan’s Nikkei 225** rose 0.3% to **42,522.97**.\n\n-\n**South Korea’s Kospi** inched up just over a point to **3,181.31**.\n\n-\n**Hong Kong’s Hang Seng** added less than 0.1% to **25,541.43**.\n\n-\n**China’s Shanghai Composite** gained 0.3% to **3,881.07**.\n\n-\n**Australia’s S&P/ASX 200** was 0.1% higher at **8,948.30**.\n\n-\n**Taiwan’s Taiex** climbed 0.7%, while **Thailand’s SET** rose 0.4%.\n\nIndian markets were closed for a public holiday, coinciding with the start of **50% U.S. tariffs** on exports. The measures, introduced by Donald Trump, are expected to hit labour-intensive sectors such as textiles particularly hard.\n\nOn Wall Street, all three major indexes finished Tuesday slightly higher after fluctuating between gains and losses throughout the day.\n\n-\nThe **S&P 500** added 0.4% to **6,465.94**.\n\n-\nThe **Dow Jones Industrial Average** rose 0.3% to **45,418.07**.\n\n-\nThe **Nasdaq Composite** climbed 0.4% to **21,544.27**.\n\nIn fixed income markets, the yield on the benchmark **10-year U.S. Treasury note** eased to **4.268%**, down from **4.301%** on Monday."}