All the Asian equity benchmarks barring Straits Times are trading higher in the early deals on Monday on account of an unexpected rate cut announcement from the Chinese central bank last Friday. Besides, recovery in commodity prices and comments from the European Central Bank President Mario Draghi that more stimulus is likely from the ECB to spur euro zone economic growth also aided sentiment. On the regional front, Chinese Shanghai Composite rallied following the central bank unexpectedly cut interest rates. Among other markets in the Asia-Pacific region, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Shanghai are up sharply. Indonesia, South Korea and Taiwan are notably higher, while Singapore is slightly lower.
Nikkei 225 spurted by 56.65 points or 0.33% to 17,357.51, Hang Seng soared 438.85 points or 1.87% to 23,875.97, KOSPI Index increased by 10.77 points or 0.55% to 1,975.61, Jakarta Composite gained 32.52 points or 0.64% to 5,144.57, Shanghai Composite gained 48.72 points or 1.96% to 2,535.51, FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI improved 18.90 points or 1.04% to 1,828.03 and Taiwan Weighted was up by 26.77 points or 0.29% to 9,118.30.On the flip side, Straits Times was down by 1.60 points or 0.05% to 3,343.72.
The Japanese market remained shut for the trade today for Labour Thanksgiving Day Holiday.
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