SINGAPORE - Asian stocks bounced from one-month lows on Tuesday, with Taiwan's market snapping a five-day losing streak as semiconductor shares took a lead from a Wall Street recovery, while sagging commodity prices weighed on the Aussie dollar.
"Risk sentiments and Democrat support for Kamala Harris appear to be at least on the way to solid," said Mizuho economist Vishnu Varathan in a note to clients. Over the week to Monday, the company - the most valuable listed firm in Asia - lost about $100 billion in market value after U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump sounded equivocal about protecting Taiwan and its chip industry in a magazine interview.
In bond markets, U.S. yields ticked up overnight and were broadly steady in Asia, with benchmark 10-year yields at 4.25% and two-year yields at 4.51%.Markets have priced two U.S. rate cuts for the second half of this year which has started to weigh on the dollar, even if uncertainty over the U.S. election is keeping it from falling too far.
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