Asian markets trade mostly in green in early deals on Wednesday

22 May 2019 Evaluate

Most of the Asian equity benchmarks are trading in green in the early deals on Wednesday, due to optimism on US trade conflicts after US temporarily eased trade restrictions on Chinese telecom giant Huawei. Japanese Nikkei index is also in positive territory with the strong cues from Wall Street and on a weaker yen. Even though, gains are limited as the markets digested mixed Japanese economic data. Among the other Asian markets, Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, are in positive territory. Bucking the trend, Shanghai, Indonesia and Malaysia are losing.

Nikkei 225 up 7.75 points or 0.04% to 21,280.20, Hang Seng rose 82.71 points or 0.30% to 27,739.95, Straits Times enlarge by 7.13 points or 0.22% to 3,190.39, Taiwan Weighted higher by 19.52 points or 0.19% to 10,484.02, KOSPI Shares jump 4.92 points or 0.24% to 2,066.17.

On the flip side, Jakarta Composite dip 11.38 points or 0.19% to 5,939.99, Shanghai Composite decline by 0.57 points or 0.02% to 2,905.40 and FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI down by 1.62 points or 0.10% to 1,603.74.

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