{"id":5444,"date":"2026-10-01T07:41:51","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T12:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/01\/global-markets-split-as-bond-yields-surge\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T07:41:53","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T12:41:53","slug":"global-markets-split-as-bond-yields-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/01\/global-markets-split-as-bond-yields-surge\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Markets Split as Bond Yields Surge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> ST. LOUIS, MO \u2013 October 1, 2026 (STL.News) Global Markets \u2013 Global financial markets entered the fourth quarter with a striking divide Thursday as semiconductor enthusiasm drove powerful gains in Japan and South Korea while surging government bond yields pressured stocks elsewhere and pushed borrowing costs to levels not seen in decades. Japan\u2019s Nikkei 225 surged 3.30% to 68,956.72, up 2,203 points. South Korea\u2019s KOSPI reversed an early decline and finished 1.95% higher at 6,971.35. Australia moved sharply in the opposite direction, with the S&amp;P\/ASX 200 falling 1.99% to 8,614.40. European markets were also under substantial pressure Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stl.news\/global-markets-split-as-bond-yields-surge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ST. LOUIS, MO \u2013 October 1, 2026 (STL.News) Global Markets \u2013 Global financial markets entered the fourth quarter with a striking divide Thursday as semiconductor enthusiasm drove powerful gains in Japan and South Korea while surging government bond yields pressured&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5445,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5446,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5444\/revisions\/5446"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}