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Asia tech shares spooked by phone warning, oil near highs

Asia tech shares spooked by phone warning, oil near highs
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20/04/2018

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Asian shares slipped on Friday as a warning on smartphone demand from the world’s largest contract chipmaker slugged the tech sector, while high oil prices stirred inflation fears and undermined sovereign bonds.

Spreadbetters pointed to a firm start for European shares, with FTSE futures up 0.3 percent FFIc1 but E-Minis for S&P 500 ESc1 were a tad softer as were Dow futures 1YMc1.

In Asia, Apple led the way after Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing  cut its revenue target to the low end of forecasts and blamed softer demand for smartphones.

“The big story for the APAC region today will be fallout from TSMC’s miss, which will weigh heavily on the tech sector, with first order impacts on the Semis and Samsung Electronics/ Galaxy supply chain,” analysts at JPMorgan said in a note.

“The miss appears largely to have been due to Apple iPhones, and so may also weigh on the Apple supply chain.”

Taiwan’s main index slid 1.8 percent with techs sinking 3.5 percent and TSMC off more than 6 percent.

Stocks in South Korea took a 0.5 percent dip.

MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan shed 1.1 percent, again led by a 1.6 percent fall in technology.

Japan’s Nikkei eased 0.1 percent as the drop is tech outweight the gains in energy and financials.

Wall Street had also been hit by weak results from tobacco company Philip Morris, which sent its shares down as much as 17.7 percent and dragged on the S&P 500.

The Dow ended down 0.34 percent, while the S&P 500 lost 0.57 percent and the Nasdaq 0.78 percent.

INFLATION FUEL

Oil prices eased a bit after hitting their highest since late 2014 on drawdowns in global supply and as Saudi Arabia looks to fatten its export revenue.

Brent crude futures LCOc1 were off 10 cents to $73.68 a barrel, while U.S. crude CLc1 slipped 20 cents to $68.09.

A global oil glut has been virtually eliminated, according to a joint OPEC and non-OPEC technical panel, two sources familiar with the matter said, thanks in part to an OPEC-led supply cut deal in place since January 2017.

Analysts at CBA noted market measures of inflation expectations had spiked higher this week as oil prices surged, with some hitting highs not seen since mid-2014.

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That in turn pressured fixed-income debt with yields on 10-year Treasuries US10YT=RR jumping to a one-month top at 2.93 percent. They had last eased slightly to 2.91 percent.

Yields are up 10 basis points in just two days, the sharpest move since early February.

In currency markets, the main mover was sterling which dived late on Thursday when Bank of England Governor Mark Carney cooled expectations for an interest rate hike in May, pointing out there were “other meetings” this year.

Sterling dropped more than a cent to $1.4078, leaving the week’s peak of $1.4373 a distant memory.

The sudden retreat in sterling helped support the U.S. dollar more broadly and the dollar index was steady at 89.986.

The euro also eased back a touch to $1.2336, while the dollar inched up on the yen to 107.55 and looked set to test the recent top at 107.78.

On the radar later in the day will be IMF and World Bank meetings in Washington where free trade and protectionism are certain to be high on the agenda along with Sino-U.S. tensions.

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