Asian shares display unenthusiastic trends on Monday

26 Mar 2012 Evaluate

Stock markets across the Asian region traded in a narrow range and are exhibiting mixed trends in Monday’s trading session as sentiments at large remained cautious, lacking any catalyst to open fresh bets. Cues from over the weekend US markets remained supportive as the US housing reports showed that home prices rose to highest levels in eight months despite the decline in single family home sales in February. However, the upside for most markets remained under check as market participants were concerned over the corporate earnings outlook amid global economy showing signs of slowing down.

The benchmark in Tokyo inched up from its previous closing levels but traded with only marginal gains as marketmen indulged in stock specific activity, following the supportive over the weekend leads from Wall Street and the yen's depreciation against the US dollar as well as the euro. On the other hand, the key equity index in Taiwan, which finished higher in three previous sessions and surged over a percent in the process, led the losers and traded with large cuts of over a percent and even slipped below the psychological, 8,000 levels.

Shanghai Composite gained 7.70 points or 0.33% to 2,357.24, Hang Seng rose 7.93 points or 0.04% to 20,676.73, KLSE Composite added 1.12 points or 0.07% to 1,586.95 and Nikkei 225 went up 19.90 points or 0.20% to 10,031.37.

On the other hand, Jakarta Composite eased 4.12 points or 0.10% to 4,037.44, Straits Times slipped 11:07 2.84 points or 0.09% to 2,987.24, Seoul Composite declined 8.63 points or 0.43% to 2,018.20 and Taiwan Weighted plummeted 109.50 points or 1.36% to 7,967.11.

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