Most of the Asian equity benchmarks are trading down in the early deals on Monday, tracking the mixed lead from Wall Street on Friday and lower commodity prices curbed markets’ appetite for riskier assets such as equities. Investors are also treading cautiously after the sell-off in the Chinese markets in the previous session. Meanwhile, the Japan's Nikkei share average fell as investors awaited key global policy and data events this week, while Japan's industrial production data failed to support sentiment. The Industrial output in Japan gained a seasonally adjusted 1.4 percent on month in October, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry said in Monday's preliminary reading - rising for the second straight month. That missed forecasts for an increase of 1.8 percent, although it was up from 1.1 percent in September. Among the other Asian markets, South Korea, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Indonesia and Malaysia are all in negative territory. Bucking the trend, Singapore is marginally higher.
Nikkei 225 slipped 125.02 points or 0.63% to 19,758.92, Hang Seng dropped 53.02 points or 0.24% to 22,015.30, Taiwan Weighted dipped 137.39 points or 1.64% to 8,261.01, KOSPI Index decreased 41.15 points or 2.03% to 1,987.84, Shanghai Composite contracted 60.92 points or 1.77% to 3,375.39, Jakarta Composite crumbled 39.35 points or 0.86% to 4,521.21, and FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI was down by 16.62 points or 0.99% to 1,665.97.
On the flip side, Straits Times was up by 10.13 points or 0.35% to 2,869.25.
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