Asian equities surge on supportive overnight leads

10 Jan 2012 Evaluate

Equity bourses across Asia displayed encouraging trends on Tuesday as investors took to bottom fishing after the recent sell-off in the region. After getting a slew of unexpectedly encouraging US economic reports, market participants across the region appeared hopeful that the fourth quarter’s corporate earnings from top US companies would be impressive. However, optimism in the markets was measured as cautiousness is likely to creep in after investors’ focus shifts to upcoming sovereign bond auctions in Europe and a European Central Bank policy meeting.

The benchmark in South Korea led the space with gains of well over one and half a percent while the Chinese shares too were not far behind as investors piled up positions a day after Chinese trade data showed China’s imports grew at the slowest pace since October 2009 in December while export growth slowed too. A former Chinese central bank adviser also said that world’s second largest economy won’t have a hard landing this year and the nation’s housing prices are unlikely to collapse.

Shanghai Composite surged 33.99 points or 1.53% to 2,259.88, Hang Seng advanced 104.03 points or 0.55% to 18,969.75, Jakarta Composite gained 10.22 points or 0.26% to 3,899.29, Nikkei 225 rose 33.80 points or 0.40% to 8,424.15, Straits Times climbed 25.39 points or 0.94% to 2,716.67, Seoul Composite soared 29.88 points or 1.64% to 1,856.37 and Taiwan Weighted jumped 78.25 points or 1.10% to 7,171.29.

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