Asian markets end mostly lower on Wednesday

16 Jun 2021 Evaluate

Asian markets ended mostly lower on Wednesday tracking Wall Street’s overnight weakness as markets awaited fresh guidance from the US Federal Reserve's policy meeting later in the day. While, reports showed Americans slowed their spending in May and US producer prices rose at their fastest annual clip in nearly 11 years in the month. Chinese shares ended down following concerns about lofty valuations. Further, rising Sino-West tensions after G7 leaders took the Asian nation to task over a range of issues, which Beijing called a gross interference in the country’s internal affairs also dented Chinese market sentiments. Japanese shares closed lower despite hopes for a vaccine-driven domestic economic recovery. While, the overall value of core machine orders in Japan rose 0.6 percent sequentially in April, missing expectations for an increase of 2.7 percent.

Asian Indices

Last Trade           

Change in Points

Change in %    

Shanghai Composite

3,518.33
-38.23
-1.07

Hang Seng

28,436.84
-201.69
-0.70

Jakarta Composite

6,078.57
-10.47
-0.17

KLSE Composite

1,578.32

-3.05

-0.19

Nikkei 225

29,291.01
-150.29
-0.51

Straits Times

3,139.57
-35.30
-1.11

KOSPI Composite

3,278.68
20.05
0.62

Taiwan Weighted

17,307.86
-63.43
-0.37


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