{"id":54433,"date":"2025-10-12T20:38:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T00:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/global-markets-react-to-shifting-us-china-trade-stance-us-futures-surge-asia-lags\/54433\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T20:38:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T00:38:18","slug":"global-markets-react-to-shifting-us-china-trade-stance-us-futures-surge-asia-lags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/global-markets-react-to-shifting-us-china-trade-stance-us-futures-surge-asia-lags\/54433\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Markets React to Shifting US-China Trade Stance: US Futures Surge, Asia Lags"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Key Takeaways<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>U.S. equity futures surged, with the <a href=\"https:\/\/stockmarketwatch.com\/indices\/sp500\/today\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"snp500 today\">S&amp;P 500<\/a> (<a href=\"\/stock\/SPX\">SPX<\/a>) gaining 1.1% and Nasdaq (<a href=\"\/stock\/NDX\">NDX<\/a>) jumping 1.6%, as President Trump signaled a willingness to negotiate a trade deal with China.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Oil prices rebounded, easing fears of an escalating trade war between the world&#39;s two largest economies.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Asian markets largely lagged, opening lower due to initial trade tension concerns, with Australia&#39;s ASX 200 (<a href=\"\/stock\/XJO\">XJO<\/a>) down 0.6% and South Korea&#39;s KOSPI (<a href=\"\/stock\/KOSPI\">KOSPI<\/a>) also declining.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>European futures showed modest gains, with the Euro Stoxx 50 (<a href=\"\/stock\/STOXX50E\">STOXX50E<\/a>) up 0.3% and Germany&#39;s DAX (<a href=\"\/stock\/DAX\">DAX<\/a>) rising 0.4%, while the FTSE (<a href=\"\/stock\/FTSE\">FTSE<\/a>) remained flat.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>U.S. equity futures experienced a significant jump overnight, climbing over <strong>1%<\/strong>, with the S&amp;P 500 (<a href=\"\/stock\/SPX\">SPX<\/a>) up <strong>1.1%<\/strong> and the Nasdaq (<a href=\"\/stock\/NDX\">NDX<\/a>) surging <strong>1.6%<\/strong>. This strong rebound followed President Trump&#39;s signal of willingness to negotiate a trade deal with China, which <em>eased fears of a renewed trade war<\/em>. The positive sentiment also led to a rebound in oil prices.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the positive shift in U.S. sentiment, Asian markets largely lagged. The region reacted to last Friday&#39;s threats of tariffs from President Trump and a Wall Street sell-off, causing stocks to begin lower. South Korea&#39;s KOSPI (<a href=\"\/stock\/KOSPI\">KOSPI<\/a>) and Australia&#39;s ASX 200 (<a href=\"\/stock\/XJO\">XJO<\/a>) were both down, with the ASX 200 (<a href=\"\/stock\/XJO\">XJO<\/a>) falling <strong>0.6%<\/strong>. Investors in Asia remained cautious about the <em>durability of any potential trade truce<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>European futures, in contrast, edged higher in early trading. The Euro Stoxx 50 (<a href=\"\/stock\/STOXX50E\">STOXX50E<\/a>) rose <strong>0.3%<\/strong>, and Germany&#39;s DAX (<a href=\"\/stock\/DAX\">DAX<\/a>) gained <strong>0.4%<\/strong>. The UK&#39;s FTSE (<a href=\"\/stock\/FTSE\">FTSE<\/a>) remained flat, indicating a mixed but generally positive outlook across the continent. Market participants are now awaiting Chinese trade data, which could provide further direction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key Takeaways U.S. equity futures surged, with the S&amp;P 500 (SPX) gaining 1.1% and Nasdaq (NDX) jumping 1.6%, as President [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50383,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"rank_math_schema_Article":[],"rank_math_focus_keyword":[],"rank_math_description":[],"financial_data_references":[],"stock_symbols_mentioned":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[5012],"tags":[95,1876,1947,2002,4332,4380,5086,6211],"class_list":["post-54433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","tag-nasdaq","tag-sp-500","tag-oil","tag-futures","tag-trade-war","tag-stock-market","tag-dax","tag-us-china"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}