{"id":411415,"date":"2021-04-22T08:29:22","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T02:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=411415"},"modified":"2021-04-22T09:08:04","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T03:38:04","slug":"asian-shares-oil-prices-hit-by-coronavirus-risks-to-growth-outlook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/asian-shares-oil-prices-hit-by-coronavirus-risks-to-growth-outlook\/","title":{"rendered":"Asian shares, oil prices hit by coronavirus risks to growth outlook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Asian shares and U.S. stock futures fell on Wednesday as concern about a resurgence of coronavirus cases in some countries cast doubt on the strength of global growth and demand for crude oil.<\/p>\n<p>European stocks looked set for a more promising start, however, with Euro Stoxx 50 futures up 0.28%, Germany&#8217;s DAX futures up 0.25% and Britain&#8217;s FTSE futures up 0.15%. <\/p>\n<p>MSCI&#8217;s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan fell 1.08%. Australian stocks dropped 0.56% but shares in China recouped early losses and rose 0.29% due to positive earnings from the healthcare and banking sectors.<\/p>\n<p>Stocks in Tokyo slumped by 1.95% due the growing likelihood that Tokyo, Osaka and surrounding areas will be put on lockdown due to a new wave of coronavirus infections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asian shares and U.S. stock futures fell on Wednesday as concern about a resurgence of coronavirus cases in some countries cast doubt on the strength of global growth and demand for crude oil. European stocks looked set for a more promising start, however, with Euro Stoxx 50 futures up 0.28%, Germany&#8217;s DAX futures up 0.25% and Britain&#8217;s FTSE futures up 0.15%. MSCI&#8217;s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan fell 1.08%. Australian stocks dropped 0.56% but shares in China recouped early losses and rose 0.29% due to positive earnings from the healthcare and banking sectors. Stocks in Tokyo slumped by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-411415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411415","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}