Most of the Asian equity benchmarks are trading up in the early deals on Friday after the Bank of England reduced its key interest rate for the first time in seven years and expanded its quantitative easing. Nevertheless, investors are cautious ahead of the release of the US monthly jobs report later in the day. The Labor Department's report is expected to show an increase of about 185,000 jobs in July after employment jumped by 287,000 jobs in June. The unemployment rate is expected to edge down to 4.8 percent from 4.9 percent. Meanwhile, Japan's Nikkei share average rose but was on track for a weekly loss, as investors’ warily awaited US jobs data later in the session for direction. Among the other Asian markets, Hong Kong, South Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia and Taiwan are also modestly higher. Bucking the trend, Shanghai and Singapore are lower.
Nikkei 225 gained 14.43 points or 0.09% to 16,269.32, Hang Seng increased 321.31 points or 1.47% to 22,153.54, Jakarta Composite jumped 42.93 points or 0.80% to 5,416.79, Taiwan Weighted rose 52.16 points or 0.58% to 9,076.87, FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI added 3.24 points or 0.20% to 1,658.53, and KOSPI Index was up by 14.03 points or 0.70% to 2,014.06.
On the flip side, Straits Times declined 1.67 points or 0.06% to 2,830.29, and Shanghai Composite was down by 3.04 points or 0.10% to 2,979.38.
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