Most of the Asian equity benchmarks are trading up in the early deals on Monday, following the positive cues from Wall Street on better-than-expected US jobs data and also as data showed that China's inflation held steady in June. China releases producer prices and consumer inflation for June with 0.1% fall on-month expected and a 1.5% gain seen annually. Producer prices are seen up 5.5% on year. Crude oil rose in Asian trades after tumbling on Friday. Meanwhile, Japan's Nikkei share average rose after Wall Street gained on Friday, while the dollar strengthened against the yen on the heels of US jobs data that gave investors more confidence in the strength of the US economy. Among the other Asian markets, South Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong and Taiwan are also higher. Bucking the trend, Indonesia, Malaysia and Shanghai are edging lower.
Nikkei 225 added 155.35 points or 0.78% to 20,084.44, Hang Seng rose 267.31 points or 1.05% to 25,608.16, KOSPI Index gained 5.97 points or 0.25% to 2,385.84, Taiwan Weighted increased 3.07 points or 0.03% to 10,300.32, and Straits Times was up by 13.48 points or 0.42% to 3,242.49.
On the flip side, Jakarta Composite declined 8.1 points or 0.14% to 5,806.69, Shanghai Composite dropped 6.65 points or 0.21% to 3,211.31, and FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI was down by 3.11 points or 0.18% to 1,756.82.
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