ASIA NIGHT SESSION | Nikkei, Hang Seng Futures Slide as Oil Tops $100 and Fed Hike Bets Build; Taiwan Futures Drop 797 Points

According to HKET, JPX and UDN, Asian index futures fell across the overnight session as crude oil pushed above $100 a barrel and U.S. equities dropped for a fourth straight day. WTI rose 6.7% to $102.48 and Brent gained 5.9% to $107.63 on Middle East tension and Saudi output at its lowest since 1990, while U.S. August producer prices rose 5.4% year-on-year and the 10-year Treasury yield neared 5% at 4.943%. CME FedWatch showed odds of a Federal Reserve rate hike on Sept. 16 climbing to about 73% from roughly 64% before the data; the European Central Bank raised rates 0.25%. Nikkei 225 futures ended the Osaka Exchange night session lower. The near-month December 2026 contract closed at 63,870, down 1,220 points or about 1.87%, trading between a low of 63,770 and a high of 65,050 on volume of 9,109 as of 06:00 Japan time. (No Japanese media report on the night close was available; the figures are from JPX official data.) Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index futures night session closed at 24,701, down 199 points, moving between 24,691 and 24,909 on volume of 14,183 for the near-month September contract. The Hang Seng China Enterprises-linked mainland gauge eased 0.7% to 5,788. Among Hong Kong-listed names in U.S. trading, the HSBC ADR fell about 1.25% to an equivalent HK$162.64, the Tencent ADR slipped 0.89% to HK$421.80, the Meituan ADR lost 1.13% to HK$73.91, and Alibaba's U.S. shares edged down 0.46% to HK$106.41 equivalent. Taiwan's TAIEX futures led the declines. The near-month September contract fell 797 points, or 1.70%, to 46,072, swinging between a low of 46,015 and a high of 46,896, as the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index tumbled 2.66% overnight and TSMC futures fell NT$32.