Upbeat global cues help Asia markets trade on optimistic note

08 Feb 2012 Evaluate

Stock markets across Asia traded on an optimistic note in Wednesday’s trading session as sentiments got support from the positive close on the Wall Street overnight. Investors in the region remained in sanguine mood on hopes that Greece would take the tough choice of accepting painful reforms in return for a new international bailout to avert a chaotic default. Encouraging US Job openings reading in the US, which rose in December by the most in almost a year along with good credit card debt numbers which surged for second month in a row during December, spurred some hopes that the world’s largest economy will keep growing in 2012.

The benchmark in Japan surged by around a percent and even regained the psychological 9,000 levels as sentiments were supported by the depreciation in yen which helped the export oriented stocks move higher. Shares in South Korea climbed over half a percent led by refiners and growth-sensitive shares.

Shanghai Composite advanced 8.69 points or 0.38% to 2,300.59, Hang Seng climbed 119.98 points or 0.58% to 20,819.17, Jakarta Composite rose 1.85 points or 0.05% to 3,957.30, Nikkei 225 surged 83.19 points or 0.93% to 9,000.71, Straits Times gained 10.97 points or 0.37% to 2,968.75, Seoul Composite amassed 15.01 points or 0.76% to 1,996.60 and Taiwan Weighted soared 116.23 points or 1.51% to 7,823.67.

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