Most of the Asian equity benchmarks are trading up in the early deals on Friday, as investors maintained a cautiously optimistic outlook while they waited for US economic data and remarks by the Fed chief. Japanese stocks rose amid steady yen weakness and media reports that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe would delay by two years a sales tax hike scheduled to go into effect in April 2017 due to weakness in economy. However, China’s stocks headed for their longest stretch of weekly losses since July 2012 amid concern a pick-up in earnings growth is losing steam as the nation’s economy slows. Among the other Asian markets, South Korea, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia and Taiwan are also up with modest gains.
Nikkei 225 gained 70.85 points or 0.42% to 16,843.31, Straits Times added 10.03 points or 0.36% to 2,783.34, KOSPI Index jumped 8.94 points or 0.46% to 1,966.00, Taiwan Weighted increased 43.61 points or 0.52% to 8,437.73, FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI surged 1.94 points or 0.12% to 1,633.03, and Jakarta Composite was up by 7.96 points or 0.17% to 4,792.53.
On the flip side, Hang Seng declined 25.75 points or 0.13% to 20,371.36, and Shanghai Composite was down by 8.41 points or 0.30% to 2,814.03.
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