TOKYO/NEW YORK (Reuters) – Asian shares and U.S. stock futures dipped into the red on Tuesday, erasing earlier gains as a restored decline in oil costs overshadowed optimism about the easing of coronavirus-related constraints seen globally.
FILE PHOTO: Individuals wearing protective face masks, following a break out of the coronavirus, are assessed a screen revealing Nikkei index, outside a brokerage in Tokyo, Japan February 28,2020 REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha
MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan.MIAPJ0000 PUS was down 0.3%. Shares in China CSI300 fell 0.7%and South Korean shares KS11 fell 0.22%.
Oil futures dropped after the biggest U.S. oil exchange-traded fund stated it would offer all its front-month crude agreements to avoid more losses as prices collapse.
Some financiers are hoping the worst might be over for the world economy as more nations permit companies to re-open, but others see reasons to remain careful, particularly as a coronavirus vaccine has yet to be established.
” We are less positive and expect a slower healing worldwide economy,” Commonwealth Bank of Australia said in a research note.
“