Asian Markets trade mostly lower in early deals on Monday

16 Aug 2021 Evaluate
Most of the Asian equity benchmarks traded lower in early deals on Monday, weighed down by the worries over China’s regulatory curb, sharp decline in US consumer sentiments, the tumbling crude oil prices and the rapid spread of highly contagious covid delta variant infections and the fresh restrictions in several places across the world. Technological shares appears to be mixed in session, while financial sector stocks experienced major sell offs. Gold miners are higher. Japan’s Nikkei is bearish extending losing streak to third straight session, as the speculators remained vary on the stifled economic activity in the region with the resultant state of emergencies, with 17,832 new covid infections on Sunday, the 13th straight day above 10,000. Major exporters in the country faced negative trend with the firmer local currency yen. Among the Asian stocks, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Indonesia, and Malaysia are in down ward trend. Bucking the trend, China is in positive territory.

Nikkei 225 down by 467.10 points or 1.67% to 27,510.05, Straight times dipped by 11.00 points or 0.35% to 3,154.57, Hang Seng diminished by 196.21 points or 0.74% to 26,195.41, Taiwan Weighted shrunk by 152.40 points or 0.90% to 16,829.71, KOSPI dipped by 37.09 points or 1.16% to 3,171.29, Jakarta Composite lower by 62.85 points 1.02% to 6,076.64, and FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI curtailed by $8.45 points or 0.56% to 1,496.66.

On the flip side, Shanghai Composite up by 12.84 points or 0.37% to 3,529.14.

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