Asian markets trade weak as Greek deal fails to spur optimism

22 Feb 2012 Evaluate

Stock markets in Asia exhibited pessimistic trends in Wednesday’s trading session as the reports of Greece securing a bailout to avoid a disorderly default seemed to have already been factored in. Investors rather remained nervous that added layers of austerity will undercut Greek growth and undermine efforts by the debt laden nation to slash its debt pile to a sustainable level. Markets in the region found little support from the overnight mixed closing on Wall Street as European finance ministers’ approval of 130 billion euro in aid for Greece failed to spur enough confidence to keep the benchmarks there at around four year high levels.

Most markets in the region traded with moderate losses with the Chinese benchmark slipping by a quarter percent ahead of a preliminary survey of factory activity in China scheduled to be released later in the day. However, the index in Japan bucked the dismal trend and traded on a positive note, led by energy shares after international crude oil prices rallied near their nine month high levels while the depreciation in yen spurred buying interests in export oriented stocks.

Shanghai Composite slipped 5.74 points or 0.24% to 2,375.69, Hang Seng declined 68.89 points or 0.32% to 21,409.83, Jakarta Composite shed 14.58 points or 0.36% to 3,988.38, KLSE Composite fell 2.36 points or 0.15% to 1,561.42, Straits Times dropped 20.85 points or 0.69% to 3,004.22 and Seoul Composite eased 0.42 points or 0.02% to 2,024.66.

On the flipside, Nikkei 225 added 14.57 points or 0.15% to 9,477.59 and Taiwan Weighted climbed 63.55 points or 0.80% to 7,985.05.

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