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Asian Markets trade mostly lower in early deals on Friday

16 Jul 2021 Evaluate
Most of the Asian equity benchmarks traded lower in early deals on Friday, weighed down by the profit booking in technological sector stocks and on concerns surrounding peaking covid infections. Weakness in US Treasury yield notes followed by the dovish stance of US Federal Reserve, and rising tensions between US traders and China also dulled the market sentiments. The market participants eagerly awaited for the outcome of the Fed's two-day meeting which could provide cues on the central bank's stance on liquidity mop up amid rising inflation and economic recovery. Sinking Crude oil rates dragged the oil stocks down. Financial Stocks were also majorly down. Japan’s Nikkei extended losses to third session in a row, with the benchmark holding just above 28,000 level, as the traders side lined ahead to the  Bank of Japan's monetary policy decision which is due later today. Japan is already declared a fourth state of emergency for Tokyo till August 22 to curb the latest spike in infections ahead of the Olympic Games opening ceremony in the city in a week. The Tokyo metropolitan government reported 1308 new infections on Thursday, the highest figure since mid-January. Among the Asian markets, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, China and Malaysia, are trading lower .Bucking the trend, Hong Kong, Indonesia and Singapore are in positive territory.

Nikkei 225 down by 216.59 points or 0.77% to 28,062.50, Taiwan Weighted slipped by 158.63 points or 0.88% to 17,875.56, KOSPI narrowed 17.29 points or 0.53% to 3,268.93, Shanghai Composite curtailed by 0.80 points or 0.02% to 3,563.79 and FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI lower by 4.42 points 0.29% to 1,516.40.

On the flip side, Hang Seng up by 124.73 points or 0.45% to 28,121.00, Jakarta Composite lifted by 13.47 points 0.22% to 6,060.22, Straits Times rose by 3.08 points or 0.10% to 3,143.06.

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