{"id":36212,"date":"2025-02-24T01:35:54","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T04:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tiproject.online\/index.php\/2025\/02\/24\/hang-seng-and-asx-200-markets-mixed-amid-us-economy-jitters-china-optimism\/"},"modified":"2025-02-24T01:35:54","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T04:35:54","slug":"hang-seng-and-asx-200-markets-mixed-amid-us-economy-jitters-china-optimism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tiproject.online\/index.php\/2025\/02\/24\/hang-seng-and-asx-200-markets-mixed-amid-us-economy-jitters-china-optimism\/","title":{"rendered":"Hang Seng and ASX 200: Markets Mixed Amid US Economy Jitters, China Optimism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<h2 id=\"us-services-sector-contracts\">US Services Sector Contracts<\/h2>\n<p>On February 21, the US services sector took center stage. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fxempire.com\/news\/article\/services-pmi-falls-to-49-7-sp500-tests-session-lows-1499422\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">S&amp;P Global Services PMI<\/a> unexpectedly dropped from 52.7 in January to 49.7 in February, signaling a sector contraction. Accounting for around 80% of US GDP, February\u2019s data heightened fears of a sharp economic slowdown, triggering a flight to safety.<\/p>\n<p>S&amp;P Global Market Intelligence Chief Business Economist Chris Williamson emphasized the significance of the February survey, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pmi.spglobal.com\/Public\/Home\/PressRelease\/c3a10cc3461d4d8aa1758082292e7358\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">stating<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWhereas the survey was indicating robust economic growth in excess of 2% late last year, the February survey signals a faltering of annualised GDP growth to just 0.6%.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2 id=\"us-banks-turn-bullish-on-china-stocks\">US Banks Turn Bullish on China Stocks<\/h2>\n<p>Despite ongoing uncertainty about a full-blown US-China trade war, US banks are bullish on Mainland China\u2019s equity markets.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, February 24, CN Wire reported:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cGoldman Sachs remains overweight on China\u2019s A shares and H shares. Developments in artificial intelligence will continue benefiting H shares from the fundamental and liquidity perspectives, the analysts say, and see room for A shares to catch up and narrow the return gap with H shares. H shares could continue being favored as global funds raise their allocation in China, they add.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] US Services Sector Contracts On February 21, the US services sector took center stage. The S&amp;P Global Services PMI unexpectedly dropped from 52.7 in January to 49.7 in February, signaling a sector contraction. Accounting for around 80% of US GDP, February\u2019s data heightened fears of a sharp economic slowdown, triggering a flight to safety. S&amp;P Global Market Intelligence Chief Business Economist Chris Williamson emphasized the significance of the February survey, stating: \u201cWhereas the survey was indicating robust economic growth in excess of 2% late last year, the February survey signals a faltering of annualised GDP growth to just 0.6%.\u201d US Banks Turn Bullish on China Stocks Despite ongoing uncertainty about a full-blown US-China trade war, US banks are bullish on Mainland China\u2019s equity markets. On Monday, February 24, CN Wire reported: \u201cGoldman Sachs remains overweight on China\u2019s A shares and H shares. Developments in artificial intelligence will continue benefiting H shares from the fundamental and liquidity perspectives, the analysts say, and see room for A shares to catch up and narrow the return gap with H shares. H shares could continue being favored as global funds raise their allocation in China, they add.\u201d [ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36213,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-financas"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tiproject.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tiproject.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tiproject.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tiproject.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tiproject.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tiproject.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tiproject.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tiproject.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tiproject.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tiproject.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}