The Asian markets closed mostly in green on Monday, with Chinese stock markets touched a seven-year highs as weak Chinese trade data intensified expectations for more economic stimulus measures from Beijing. China’s export sales contracted 15 percent in March while import shipments fell at their sharpest rate since the 2009 global financial crisis, a shock outcome that deepens concern about sputtering Chinese economic growth. The tumble in exports - the worst in about a year - compared with expectations for a 12 percent rise could heighten worries about how a rising yuan has hurt demand for Chinese goods and services abroad. In a sign that domestic demand was also tepid, imports into the world’s second-biggest economy shrank 12.7 percent last month from a year ago. That was the biggest slump in imports since May 2009. Chinese Trade Balance fell to 3.08B, from 60.60B in the preceding month.
The Bank of Japan raised its economic assessment for three of Japan’s nine regions in a quarterly report, signaling that the benefit of its stimulus programme was broadening. The central bank kept intact its optimistic assessment for the remaining six regions, stressing that solid demand at home and overseas is underpinning output and the job market. Japan’s Corporate Goods Price Index rose to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 0.7%, from 0.5% in the preceding month while Japan’s Core Machinery Orders rose to -0.4%, from -1.7% in the preceding month. Japan’s M2 Money Stock rose to a seasonally adjusted 3.6%, from 3.5% in the preceding month.
Asian Indices Last Trade Change in Points Change in % Shanghai Composite 4,121.71 87.41 2.17 Hang Seng 28,016.34 743.95 2.73 Jakarta Composite 5,447.41 -43.93 -0.80 KLSE Composite 1,842.08 -2.23 -0.12 Nikkei 225 19,905.46 -2.17 -0.01 Straits Times 3,484.39 12.01 0.35 KOSPI Composite 2,098.92 11.16 0.53 Taiwan Weighted 9,666.52 48.82 0.51
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