Stocks, bonds face pressure ahead of Powell speech: Markets wrap




Japanese equities demonstrated resilience as other Asian markets opened lower, with investors anticipating comments from Jerome Powell later on Friday.

In contrast, equities in Australia and South Korea, as well as Hong Kong share futures, declined, mirroring Thursday’s selloff in U.S. stocks where both the S&P 500 and the tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 indexes experienced losses.

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