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Asian markets trade mostly in red amid renewed worries from North Korea

16 May 2018 Evaluate

Asian markets are trading mostly in red in early deals on Wednesday, as North Korea has abruptly cancelled high-level talks with South Korea slated for Wednesday and also threatened to pull out of a planned summit with the U.S. further dampened investors’ sentiments. Japanese Nikkei edged lower on data showing that the Japanese economy contracted in the first quarter, snapping a string of eight straight quarters of expansion. Japan’s gross domestic product (GDP) was down 0.2 percent on quarter in the first three months of 2018. That was shy of expectations for a flat reading, following the downwardly revised 0.1 percent gain in the three months prior. The poor first quarter snapped a string of eight straight quarters of expansion for the Japanese economy, which had marked the longest such streak in more than three years. Among the other Asian markets, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Singapore are lower. On the other side, South Korea, Malaysia and Taiwan are higher.

Asian markets are trading mostly in red; Jakarta Composite declined 65.71 points or 1.13% to 5,772.41, Nikkei 225 decreased 53.88 points or 0.24% to 22,764.14, Hang Seng shed 35.68 points or 0.11% to 31,116.35, Straits Times fell 4.04 points or 0.11% to 3,536.19 and Shanghai Composite was down by 8.84 points or 0.28% to 3,183.28.

On the flip side, KOSPI Index rose 2.41 points or 0.1% to 2,460.95, FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI increased 6.22 points or 0.34% to 1,854.42 and Taiwan Weighted was up by 20.16 points or 0.19% to 10,894.89.


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