{"id":344200,"date":"2020-03-30T11:08:45","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T05:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=344200"},"modified":"2020-03-30T11:08:45","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T05:38:45","slug":"asian-stocks-decline-with-more-virus-warnings-oil-drop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/asian-stocks-decline-with-more-virus-warnings-oil-drop\/","title":{"rendered":"Asian stocks decline with more virus warnings; Oil drop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stocks in Asia retreated with U.S. equity futures and crude oil slumped after the top American infectious disease expert said deaths from the coronavirus in the world\u2019s largest economy may reach 200,000. Treasuries nudged higer.<\/p>\n<p>Japan\u2019s Topix index dropped about 3% with a majority of the gauge\u2019s companies trading without the right to the latest dividend. Korean stocks fell, while Australian ones took back a slice of a Friday tumble. Crude dropped below $20 a barrel in New York at one point. Singapore\u2019s dollar reversed losses after the monetary authority reduced the slope of its currency band, while affirming the current level.<\/p>\n<p>The Aussie was lower after the country limited public gatherings to just two people. Meantime, South Africa\u2019s rand tumbled to the lowest on record after Moody\u2019s Investors Service downgraded the country\u2019s debt to junk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stocks in Asia retreated with U.S. equity futures and crude oil slumped after the top American infectious disease expert said deaths from the coronavirus in the world\u2019s largest economy may reach 200,000. Treasuries nudged higer. Japan\u2019s Topix index dropped about 3% with a majority of the gauge\u2019s companies trading without the right to the latest dividend. Korean stocks fell, while Australian ones took back a slice of a Friday tumble. Crude dropped below $20 a barrel in New York at one point. Singapore\u2019s dollar reversed losses after the monetary authority reduced the slope of its currency band, while affirming the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,130,187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-344200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}