Asian Markets trade mostly higher in early deals on Monday

07 Dec 2021 Evaluate
Most of the Asian equity benchmarks traded higher in early deals on Monday, cheered with the risk appetite in Wall Street overnight as the concerns about the coronavirus Omicron variant eased. Equity buying also boost with the appreciation in crude oil rates. Technical and financial stocks picked up modestly in the session. Oil stocks also jumped with the upbeat crude oil overnight. Japan’s Nikkei surged in the session amid optimism after the reports that the new omicron coronavirus variant would be milder than initially dreaded. Market heavyweight SoftBank Group marked a hefty upsurge of more than 7%. Among the Asian stocks, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, China, Indonesia, and Malaysia are in positive territory. Bucking the trend, Taiwan is trading lower.

Nikkei 225 up by 588.65 points or 2.11% to 28,516.02, Hang Seng rose by 340.63 points or 1.46% to 23,690.01, Straight times lifted by 7.58 points or 0.24% to 3,123.90, KOSPI buoyed by 13.04 points or 0.44% to 2,986.29, Jakarta Composite enlarged by 45.62 points or 0.70% to 6,592.74 and Shanghai Composite climbed by 4.42 points or 0.12% to 3,593.73, and FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI higher by 5.32 points or 0.36% to 1,488.77.

On the flip side, Taiwan Weighted down by 14.75 points or 0.08% to 17,673.46.

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