Most of the Asian equity benchmarks are trading in red in early deals on Wednesday as investors remained cautious after negative trend in Wall Street last night amid still lingering trade conflicts between US and China. President Donald Trump said he is personally holding up a trade deal with China and that he will not complete the agreement unless Beijing returns to terms negotiated earlier in the year. Chinese markets is in negative as consumer prices peaked to 15-month high. Japanese nikkei is also trading lower with a firm yen, though capped losses with the data pointing an unexpected increase in Japan's core machinery orders in April. Among the other Asian markets, South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Indonesia and Malaysia, are trading lower. However, Singapore is in positive lead.
Nikkei 225 slips 22.22 points or 0.10% to 21,182.06, Hang Seng rose 440.82 points or 1.59% to 27,348.52, Taiwan Weighted contracts 14.04 points or 0.13% to 10,593.72, KOSPI Index jumped 5.40 points or 0.26% to 2,106.41, Shangai was dips by 16.65 points or 0.57% to 2,909.07, Jakarta Composite was down by 32.85 points or 0.52% to 6,273.14, and FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI down 6.67 points or 0.40% to 1,644.53
On the flip side, Straits Times was up 5.85 points or 0.18% to 3,215.43.
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