The Asian markets have made a mixed start with some of the indices trading lower by half to one percent. Though the Chinese market was trading up but the nation’s manufacturing expanded at the slowest pace in eight months, the PMI unexpectedly fell to 50.1 in July from 50.2 in June. However, traders have taken encouragement with country’s leaders pledging to keep adjusting policies to ensure stable economic growth this year. Meanwhile, South Korea’s exports fell nearly 9 per cent in July from a year earlier, and consumer inflation fell to a 12-year low. However, the weak inflation number strengthened expectations of aggressive monetary easing by the central bank. Japanese market was worst affected trading lower by over a percent on some disappointing earnings reports.
Shanghai Composite was up by 21.77 points or 1.03% to 2,125.40, Hang Seng added 7.39 points or 0.04% to 19,804.20, KLSE Composite gained 1.78 points or 0.11% at 1,633.28 and Straits Times was flat, up by 0.58 points or 0.02% to 3,038.38.
On the other hand, Jakarta Composite lost 31.22 points or 0.75% to 4,112.98, Nikkei 225 lost 93.43 points or 1.07% to 8,601.63, Kospi Composite was down by 6.04 points or 0.32% to 1,875.87 and Taiwan Weighted was lower by 2.69 points or 0.04% to 7,268.11.
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