Asian Markets trade lower in early deals on Friday

14 Jan 2022 Evaluate
Most of the Asian equity benchmarks traded lower in early deals on Friday, pressured by the negative cues from Wall street overnight with the concerns over wilting economy amid soaring inflation rates. Japan’s Nikkei extended previous sessional losses, in midst of caution with the fast-spreading coronavirus omicron variant recording 10,000 plus new daily cases in the country. Moreover, the market sentiments also got dulled as Japanese producer prices increased for a tenth straight month in December. Major losers in the session were M3 Inc with 5.3% fall and Recruit Holdings with dip of 5.1%. Among the Asian stocks, Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea, Taiwan and Malaysia were in negative note. Bucking the trend, Singapore, and Indonesia are trading higher.

Nikkei 225 down by 421.43 points or 1.48% to 28,067.70, Hang Seng declined by 250.61 points or 1.03% to 24,179.16, Taiwan Weighted shrunk by 94.29 points or 0.51% to 18,342.64, KOSPI narrowed by 40.56 points or 1.37% to 2,921.53, Shanghai Composite dipped by 21.09 points or 0.59% to 3,534.17 and FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI lower by 16.77 points or 1.07% to 1,552.74.

On the flip side, Straight times up by 12.57 points or 0.39% to 3,269.87, and Jakarta Composite climbed by 4.73 points or 0.07% to 6,663.09.

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