Most of the Asian equity benchmarks are trading down in the early deals on Wednesday with the weak cues overnight from Wall Street and European markets as well as the slide in commodity prices weighing on investor sentiment. Further, better-than-expected economic data from Japan and China fail to stem selling. The National Bureau of Statistics of China reported the 45th consecutive month of producer-price deflation. Factory-gate prices fell 5.9% from a year earlier, while consumer prices rose 1.5%. Both measures were slightly better than economists had expected. However, crude oil prices have risen in Asian trades. Meanwhile, the People's Bank of China set the yuan reference rate at its lowest level against the US dollar in four years. Meanwhile, Japan's Nikkei share average fell to its lowest in more than three weeks after US stocks dropped on concerns over sliding oil prices, offsetting Japan's better-than-expected machinery orders data. Among the other Asian markets, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia are down with modest losses. Bucking the trend, Shanghai, and South Korea are up with marginal gains.
Nikkei 225 dropped 189.16 points or 0.97% to 19,303.44, Hang Seng declined 84.28 points or 0.38% to 21,820.85, FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI slipped 4.06 points or 0.24% to 1,665.18, Straits Times decreased 7.89 points or 0.27% to 2,868.14, and Taiwan Weighted was down by 83.06 points or 1.00% to 8,260.80.
On the flip side, Shanghai Composite surged 22.51 points or 0.65% to 3,492.58, and KOSPI Index was up by 2.57 points or 0.13% to 1,951.61.
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