{"id":21443,"date":"2018-11-07T05:22:48","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T05:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=21443"},"modified":"2018-11-07T05:22:48","modified_gmt":"2018-11-07T05:22:48","slug":"markets-edge-higher-as-us-midterm-election-results-come-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=21443","title":{"rendered":"Markets edge higher as US midterm election results come in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">New York (CNN Business)<\/cite>Stock markets are ticking higher as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/politics\/live-news\/election-day-2018\/index.html\">the results<\/a> of the US midterm elections come in.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">After swinging between small gains and losses, Tokyo&#8217;s benchmark Nikkei index and Hong Kong&#8217;s Hang Seng both rose around 1% in Wednesday trading. Other major markets in the region were up a bit less. <a href=\"https:\/\/money.cnn.com\/data\/premarket\/\">US stock futures<\/a> pointed slightly higher.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The main US indexes had closed up just over 0.5% on Tuesday as voters went to the polls. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York (CNN Business)Stock markets are ticking higher as the results of the US midterm elections come in.After swinging between small gains and losses, Tokyo&#8217;s benchmark Nikkei index and Hong Kong&#8217;s Hang Seng both rose around 1% in Wednesday trading. Other major markets in the region were up a bit less. US stock futures pointed&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":21444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}