A person rides a bicycle in front of an electronic stock board showing Japan's Nikkei index at a securities firm in Tokyo. - AP
HONG KONG: Asian markets diverged Tuesday (Jan 14) as bargain buying after recent losses played against ongoing worries about the outlook for the global economy and the impact of a second Donald Trump presidency.
A report saying the incoming US leader's economics team was considering slowly hiking tariffs on imports provided support to traders and put a cap on the dollar's latest surge, while news of fresh curbs on AI chips to China appeared to have little immediate impact.
