Markets Live Updates: Asian stocks retreat, US yields advance, dollar strengthens on hawkish Fed




Asian stocks followed Wall Street's lead on Thursday, dipping across the board as investors interpreted the U.S. Federal Reserve's latest policy statements as signalling higher-for-longer interest rates.MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan was down 0.6%, with the Hong Kong benchmark shedding 0.8%. Japan's Nikkei fell 1%.The yield on two-year U.S. Treasury notes rose to a 17-year high of 5.1970%.

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