[BENGALURU] Australian shares eased on Wednesday, in line with global peers again focused on threats to economic growth from a prolonged trade row between Washington and Beijing.
"Negative international leads have produced opening pressure for Asia Pacific markets ... in particular the fall that we saw for blue chip stocks in the US," said Michael McCarthy, chief market strategist at CMC Markets.sentifi.comAustralia, with strong ties to both the United States and China, which is the biggest buyer of its resource-focused exports, is particularly exposed to developments in the trade war between the two economic super powers.
US crude futures gained almost 1 per cent on Tuesday after flooding throughout the Midwest constrained crude flow from a US storage hub but later erased gains, succumbing to the same Sino-US trade war concerns. "Perhaps gold is the next participant in what is clearly a global shift towards more capital stable products and more safe havens," said Mr McCarthy.