Asian equities ride on Wall Street wave

18 Apr 2012 Evaluate

Stock markets across the Asian region were painted in green on Wednesday’s trading session as all the major equity indices traded with notable gains on the back encouraging global tidings. Market sentiments in the region got bolstered as investors remained influenced by the overnight rally on Wall Street on the back of heartening earnings numbers along with the positive news from Europe. Investors’ morale got a boost after reports showed German analyst and investor confidence rose unexpectedly in April, allaying concerns over global growth while the successful Spanish bond auction eased concerns that Euro-zone debt crisis was intensifying. Moreover, the IMF opined that Asia's growth momentum would temper to 6% from earlier forecasts of 6.5% but the region will avoid a hard landing in 2012 thanks to strong domestic demand and monetary flexibility.

The benchmark in Japan rallied with renewed fervor and spurted over one and half a percent to sail beyond the psychological 9,600 levels, after the Japanese central bank indicated that it would employ additional steps to ease monetary policy. Besides, the frontline indices in China, Hong Kong and South Korea too traded with over a percent gains after healthy US corporate earnings, successful Spanish debt sale and strong German economic sentiment survey.

Shanghai Composite garnered 27.99 points or 1.20% to 2,362.98, Hang Seng spared 258.04 points or 1.25% to 20,820.35, Jakarta Composite rose 7.02 points or 0.17% to 4,164.38, KLSE Composite gained 4.39 points or 0.28% to 1,600.58, Nikkei 225 jumped 157.68 points or 1.67% to 9,622.39, Straits Times Index climbed 19.07 points or 0.64% to 3,005.66, Seoul Composite surged 20.61 points or 1.04% to 2,005.91 and Taiwan Weighted advanced 34.56 points or 0.46% to 7,620.43.

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