{"id":5969,"date":"2026-10-15T07:49:33","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T12:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/15\/asian-stocks-plunge-as-global-tech-selloff-deepens\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T07:49:35","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T12:49:35","slug":"asian-stocks-plunge-as-global-tech-selloff-deepens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/15\/asian-stocks-plunge-as-global-tech-selloff-deepens\/","title":{"rendered":"Asian Stocks Plunge as Global Tech Selloff Deepens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> TOKYO, Japan \u2013 October 15, 2026 (STL.News) Asian Stocks \u2013 Global financial markets saw a sharp, technology-led selloff Thursday as major Asian stock indexes plunged after stronger-than-expected U.S. inflation data, renewed concerns about Federal Reserve interest rates, and growing questions about the financial sustainability of the artificial intelligence investment boom. South Korea\u2019s KOSPI index fell 7.57% to close at 5,554.22. Japan\u2019s Nikkei 225 fell about 4.9%, while Taiwan and other Asian markets also saw significant selling pressure. The losses followed Wednesday\u2019s U.S. Consumer Price Index report, which showed annual inflation accelerating to 3.7% in September from 3.4% in August.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stl.news\/asian-stocks-plunge-as-global-tech-selloff-deepens\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO, Japan \u2013 October 15, 2026 (STL.News) Asian Stocks \u2013 Global financial markets saw a sharp, technology-led selloff Thursday as major Asian stock indexes plunged after stronger-than-expected U.S. inflation data, renewed concerns about Federal Reserve interest rates, and growing questions&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5970,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5969","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\/5969","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=5969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5971,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5969\/revisions\/5971"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}