The Asian markets have mostly made a weak start with lots of indices witnessing cut of over a percent. Weaker than expected retail sales data from Japan and report of lower business confidence among South Korean manufacturers was weighing on the sentiments. Japan’s retail sales dropped 0.8 percent from a year earlier last month, the first decline in eight months, earlier its trade ministry reported that only about 10 percent of the money allocated for car subsidies rolled out from April remained unspent as of August 27. In South Korea, business confidence among the country’s manufacturers stood near the lowest level. The Bank of Korea said that an index measuring expectations for September was at 75 from 70 the previous month. South Korea’s exports are being dragged down by China’s economic slowdown and Europe’s debt crisis.
Shanghai Composite was marginally down by 0.86 points or 0.04% to 2,052.38, Hang Seng plunged by 246.66 points or 1.25% to 19,541.85, Jakarta Composite declined by 40.43 points or 0.99% to 4,050.59, KLSE Composite was marginally down by 0.86 points or 0.05% to 1,644.78, Nikkei 225 lost 67.08 points or 0.74% to 9,002.73, Straits Times was down by 28.54 points or 0.94% to 3,012.80, Kospi Composite declined by 26.95 points or 1.40% to 1,902.06 and Taiwan Weighted was trading down by 1.31 points or 0.02% to 7,390.06.
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