Philippine stocks fell Wednesday ahead of the release of the August inflation data from the United States.
Investors were also watching the presidential debate between US presidential candidates US vice president Kamala Harris and former US president Donald Trump.Value turnover at the stock market reached P6.08 billion. Nervous traders were jockeying for position ahead of key US inflation data that could play a role in the Federal Reserve’s decision-making on interest rates next week.
The long-running troubles in the economy, and recent crackdowns on various sectors by the government, have hammered the mainland and Hong Kong stock markets, which have underperformed in recent years.Tokyo, Sydney, Seoul, Taipei, Bangkok, Jakarta, Wellington and Manila were also in the red, though Singapore and Mumbai edged up slightly.
“The CPI would have to be well above the current consensus… to dissuade the Fed not to ease, and even then the higher CPI would have to be due to an unlikely broad-based re-acceleration in price increases.
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