Asian equity benchmarks are trading mixed on Friday, as market players sidelined amid uncertainties over US-China trade front, followed by the cancellation of an Asia-Pacific economic cooperation summit in Chile next month, at which US and China were expected to sign an interim deal to ease hostilities in their long-running trade war. Oil stocks were trading weak in tandem with fall in crude oil prices overnight, while bullion peaked. Japan's Nikkei is in negative trend with firm safe-haven yen following negative lead from wall street overnight. Meanwhile, rise in Japan's unemployment rate in September also dampened investor sentiments. Among the Asian markets, Japan, Singapore, Indonesia and Malaysia are in lower note. Bucking the trend, Hong Kong, South Korea, Taiwan, and Shanghai are higher.
Nikkei 225 down 104.04 points 0.45% to 22,823.00, Straits Times dipped 0.57 points or 0.02% to 3,229.31, Jakarta Composite declined by 23.74 points or 0.38% to 6,204.58, and FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI was down by 6.99 points or 0.44% to 1,590.99.
On the flip side, Hang Seng increased 113.48 points or 0.42% to 27,020.20, Taiwan Weighted up 9.66 points or 0.09% to 11,368.37, KOSPI Index widened 10.15 points or 0.49% to 2,093.63, and Shanghai was up by 21.41 points 0.73% to 2,950.47.
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