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HONG KONG, July 24 — Asian equities took a beating today on rising China-US tensions while a worse-than-forecast US jobs report and stalled stimulus talks in Washington fuelled fears about the economic recovery. The losses come at the end of another tough week for markets, which have shown signs...

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, left, answers questions from Hugh Hewitt, right, president and CEO of the Nixon Foundation, after Pompeo spoke at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library, July 23, 2020, in Yorba Linda, California. — Pool pic via Reuters

The standoff is the latest in a string of issues — including Hong Kong, coronavirus and Huawei — that have plunged relations between the superpowers into crisis. Markets were already in the red following a steep drop on Wall Street sparked by news that 1.4 million Americans applied for jobless benefits last week, the first week-on-week rise since the start of the crisis.

“But it also confirms what we all thought, is that more gloom is building on the horizon as the reintroduction of lockdown measures in the most populous US states is walking back the thesis that the economy was rebounding sharply.”The Dow and S&P 500 both lost more than one per cent and the Nasdaq, which has been hitting regular records of late, dropped more than two per cent.

 

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