The Asian equity benchmarks are trading mostly in red in early deals on Thursday, as the markets grappled with lingering worries over the global economic growth following the negative lead in Wall street amid sharp-fall of benchmark 10-year US Treasury yield to fifteen-month lows. Japan’s Nikkei is also in a negative territory, with a stronger safe-haven yen and uncertainty over Brexit. Moreover, Chinese report indicating a sharp dip in industrial profits in the first two months of the year, marking lowest since late-2011, also dampened the sentiment.
Nikkei 225 down 321.87 points or 1.51% to 21,056.86, Taiwan Weighted dip 21.64 points or 0.21% to 10,521.06, KOSPI Shares contracted 11.68 points or 0.54% to 2,133.94, Hang Seng decreased 15.18 points or 0.05% to 28,713.07, and FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI slipped by 0.94 points or 0.06% to 1,641.79.
On the flip side, Straits Times climbed 7.57points or 0.24% to 3,205.96, Shanghai Composite up by 10.74 points or 0.36% to 3,011.98, and Jakarta Composite up 6.93 points or 0.11% to 6,451.67.
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