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World shares at record high as investors count on Fed largesse

September 7, 2021 by David Barret Leave a Comment

September 7, 2021

By Hideyuki Sano

TOKYO (Reuters) – Global stocks inched higher on Tuesday to a record high for the eight straight session as investors wagered the U.S. Federal Reserve is likely to delay the start of tapering its asset purchases after the soft U.S. jobs data.

Japanese shares extended their bull run on hopes the ruling Liberal Democratic Party will compile additional economic stimulus and easily win an upcoming general election after the country’s unpopular Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said he would quit.

Tokyo’s Nikkei rallied as much as 1.3%, moving past the psychological barrier of 30,000 for the first time since April, also helped by a reshuffle in the Nikkei.

Mainland Chinese shares were little changed in early trade while MSCI’s ex-Japan Asian-Pacific index was down 0.1%

The world’s shares, measured by MSCI’s gauge of 50 markets, tacked on 0.1% to log its eighth consecutive day of gains to record highs.

The latest rally, which started after Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s dovish speech at Jackson Hole Symposium late last month, received a further boost from a surprisingly soft U.S. payrolls report on Friday.

The U.S. economy created 235,000 jobs in August, the fewest in seven months as hiring in the leisure and hospitality sector stalled, reducing expectations of an early tapering by the Fed.

That was way below economists’ forecast of 728,000.

“It’s the service sector that is losing steam and that clearly shows the impact of Delta variant. And the Fed has no reason to insist on tapering this year if the Delta variant is having an impact. After all its policy moves are contingent on job recovery,” said Norihiro Fujito, chief investment strategist at Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities.

U.S. S&P 500 futures were 0.1% higher from Friday’s close after the U.S. holiday on Monday. Bond prices eased slightly, pushing up their yields, with the 10-year U.S. Treasuries yielding 1.339%, up 1.3 basis points.

In the currency market, the euro changed hands at $1.1884, a tad below Friday’s one-month peak of $1.1909 while the yen was little moved at 109.76 yen to the dollar.

The Australian dollar fetched $0.7455, not far from its 1-1/2-month high of $0.74775 set on Friday. The immediate focus is on the Reserve Bank of Australia’s policy meeting later in the day and on whether it will stick to its plan to start tapering its bond purchase this month.

Oil prices fell after Saudi Arabia’s sharp cuts to crude contract prices for Asia revived concerns over the demand outlook. [O/R]

U.S. crude futures dropped 0.6% to $68.90 per barrel.

(Reporting by Hideyuki Sano; Editing by Shri Navaratnam)

Source Link World shares at record high as investors count on Fed largesse

David Barret
David Barret

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