{"id":102657,"date":"2023-08-02T09:22:55","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T07:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/investmentbell.com\/?p=102657"},"modified":"2023-08-21T16:39:04","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T14:39:04","slug":"japans-nikkei-tops-the-losses-of-asian-markets-after-fitchs-downgrade-of-americas-rating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/investmentbell.com\/de\/news\/indices\/japans-nikkei-tops-the-losses-of-asian-markets-after-fitchs-downgrade-of-americas-rating\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s Nikkei tops the losses of Asian markets after Fitch&#8217;s downgrade of America&#8217;s rating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Asian markets fell Wednesday (August 2nd) after rating agency Fitch downgraded the United States&#8217; credit rating from AAA to AA+, citing &#8220;expected financial deterioration over the next three years&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Japanese Nikkei 225 index led the losses in the region, down by 2.3%, and closed at 32,707.69 points, while the Topix index also declined, by 1.52%, and closed at 2,301.76 points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Hang Seng Index in Hong Kong declined by 2.34%, mainly due to healthcare stocks. Mainland Chinese markets were also trading in the red, with the Shanghai Composite down -0.91%, and the Shenzhen Composite also down -0.49%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fitch said in its report: &#8220;Repeated political confrontations over debt and last-minute decisions have led to a decline in confidence in financial management.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;In Fitch&#8217;s view, there has been a steady deterioration in governance standards over the past 20 years, including on financial and debt matters, despite the June agreement to suspend the debt ceiling until January 2025,&#8221; the ratings agency added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stichworte<\/p>\n<div class=\"rate-now\"><span id=\"rate-mypost102657\"><\/span> <span id=\"rate-points\"> 0<\/span><\/div>\n\t\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\">jQuery('#rate-mypost102657').raty({\n\t\t\t\thalfShow : true,\n\t\t\t\thalf: true,readOnly: true,score: 0,\n\t\t\t\tpath: \"https:\/\/investmentbell.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/userpro-rating\/images\/\"\n\t\t\t\t});<\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asian markets fell Wednesday (August 2nd) after rating agency Fitch downgraded the United States&#8217; credit rating from AAA to AA+, citing &#8220;expected financial deterioration over the next three years&#8221;. The Japanese Nikkei 225 index led the losses in the region, down by 2.3%, and closed at 32,707.69 points, while the Topix index also declined, by [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":102664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-102657","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-indices-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/investmentbell.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/investmentbell.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/investmentbell.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investmentbell.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investmentbell.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/investmentbell.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144335,"href":"https:\/\/investmentbell.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102657\/revisions\/144335"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investmentbell.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/investmentbell.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investmentbell.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investmentbell.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}