Japan +0.20%.
China +0.02%.
Hong Kong +0.05%. Hong Kong’s central bank followed the Fed and raised its benchmark rate by 25bp to 5%, as expected.
Australia +0.13%. Australian data – Building approvals in December +18.5% m/m (expected +1.0%, previously -9.0%).
India -0.07%.
During the night on Wall Street, the main stock indexes close higher on the day with the NASDAQ leading the charge with a gain of 2%. The S&P rose 1%, while the Dow Industrial Average closed almost unchanged. Dow Industrial Average and Rosen 6.9 points or 0.02% to 34092.97; The S&P index rose by 42.61 points or 1.05% to 4119.20; The NASDAQ rose 231.78 points or 2.00% to 11816.33.
South Korea CPI in January is much warmer, +0.8% m/m (expected +0.5%, previously +0.2%).
New Zealand data – December 2022 Building permits -7.2% m/m (previously +6.7%).
BOE and ECB are the main highlight of today’s agenda.
The Federal Reserve raised benchmark overnight interest rates by 25 basis points, or 0.25 percentage points, in line with investor expectations. The increase brings the Fed’s target range to 4.5%-4.75%, the highest level since 2007.
Oil prices rose in early Asian trade on Thursday after the US central bank raised interest rates by 25 basis points, sending the dollar lower.
Brent crude oil Futures rose 56 cents, or 0.7%, to $83.40 a barrel, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures rose 65 cents, or 0.8%, to $77.05 per barrel.
Gold prices continued to rise on Thursday, hitting their highest level in more than nine months, after the Federal Reserve raised interest rates by an expected 25 basis points and comments by Chairman Jerome Powell were interpreted by the market as dovish.
Spot gold was up 0.2% at $1,953.76 an ounce, as of 02:06 GMT, after hitting its highest level since April 2022 earlier in the session US gold futures up 1.3% to $1,967.50.
Elsewhere, place silver gained 1% to $24.22 an ounce, hitting a one-week high.
Platinum rose 0.7% to $1,010.92 and palladium up 0.3% to $1,674.03.
Futures in the US lower. Dow Jones -0.35%; S&P 500 -0.33%; Nasdaq -0.23%.