Bloomberg (24/10) -- Japanese and Hong Kong index futures fell while the yen held near a two-week high versus the dollar after U.S. stocks retreated amid disappointing company earnings forecasts and a slump in chipmaker shares.Nikkei 225 Stock Average futures dropped 0.9 percent to 14,300 by 3 a.m. in Osaka and traded at 14,315 in Chicago from 14,430 in Japan yesterday. Contracts on Hong Kong’s Hang Seng and Hang Seng China Enterprises gauges lost at least 0.4 percent in their most recent sessions. Standard & Poor’s 500 Index futures were little changed after the gauge fell 0.5 percent. The yen was steady at 97.37 per dollar after jumping 0.8 percent yesterday. Oil in New York snapped a three-day drop.
Semiconductor maker Altera Corp. and Caterpillar Inc., the world’s biggest maker of construction and mining equipment, drove S&P 500 declines after forecasting weaker-than-expected revenue outlooks. A private gauge of Chinese manufacturing is due today after a surge in the nation’s benchmark money-market rate fueled the global slump in stocks and metals yesterday. The euro zone reports consumer confidence and factory output data today, while the U.S. posts jobless claims for last week.
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