Reuters · October 15, 2026

Asia-Pacific Shares Fall and U.S. Indexes Fall After September U.S. Consumer Price Data

• MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan was down 1.2%, South Korea's KOSPI was down 5.6%, and Japan's Nikkei 225 fell 1.3%, according to the report. S&P 500 e-mini futures were down 0.3%.
• On Wall Street, the S&P 500 fell 1.1% and the Nasdaq Composite fell 1.9%, according to the report, after U.S. consumer price inflation for September rose more than expected.
• Fed funds futures priced an implied 31.6% probability of a 25-basis-point hike at the Federal Reserve meeting on October 28, compared with 22.1% a day earlier, according to the CME Group's FedWatch tool, cited in the report.
• The yield on the U.S. 10-year Treasury bond fell 4.4 basis points to 5.144%, according to the report.

Index, futures, yield and probability figures via market data and the CME Group's FedWatch tool, cited in the original report. This card is based on the accessible portion only. Original headline: "Asian markets sell off as AI trades crumble after hot US CPI data".