Asian markets trade mostly higher in early deals on Wednesday

24 Jun 2020 Evaluate

Most of the Asian equity benchmarks are trading higher on Wednesday, on dogged optimism over outlook for a re-opening of the global economy albeit peaking coronavirus cases are been watched anxiously. Better than expected economic data and widespread monetary stimulus packages by central banks provided support to the market sentiments. Japan's Nikkei is trading lower as the participants went cautious ahead to the release of its final April data for its leading and coincident indexes today. Among the Asian markets, Singapore, Indonesia, China, South Korea, and Taiwan are in positive side. Bucking the trend, Japan, Hong Kong and Malaysia are trading lower.

Straits Times up by 2.33 points or 0.09% to 2,637.25, Taiwan Weighted added 41.93 points or 0.36% to 11,654.29, KOSPI Index higher by 28.93 points or 1.36% to 2,160.17, Jakarta Composite widened by 88.25 points or 1.81% to 4,967.38, Shanghai hiked 4.81 points or 0.16% to 2,975.43.

On the flip side, Nikkei 225 down by 14.81 points, 0.07% to 22,534.24, Hang Seng slipped by 34.13 points or 0.14% to 24,873.21 and FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI lower by 4.10 points or 0.27% to 1,502.94.

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