Asian markets trade mixed in early deals on Monday

17 Jun 2019 Evaluate

Most of the Asian equity benchmarks are trading mixed in early deals on Monday, due to cautious outlook by the market participants ahead to the closely monitored US Central Bank meeting amid geopolitical and economic slowdown tensions. The market sentiments weighed with the modest losses on Wall Street Friday on release of upbeat US sales data. Japanese Nikkei is trading in positive ahead to the meeting of the Bank of Japan, later this week. Hong Kong rallies after another mass protest over the weekend that forced an apology from the city’s Chief Executive. Among the other Asian markets, Taiwan, and Malaysia are trading higher. Bucking the trend, South Korea, Shanghai, Indonesia and Singapore is in negative territory.

Nikkei 225 up 20.95 points or 0.10% to 21,137.84, Hang Seng rose 179.98 points or 0.66% to 27,298.33, Taiwan Weighted contracts 23.82 points or 0.23% to 10,548.49, and FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI increases 1.69 points or 0.10% to 1,640.32

On the flip side, KOSPI Index declined 4.92 points or 0.23% to 2,090.49, Jakarta Composite was down by 18.62 points or 0.30% to 6,231.65, Shanghai was down by 1.45 points or 0.05% to 2,880.52,  and Straits Times was dip 1.97 points or 0.06% to 3,220.66.

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