Most of the Asian equity benchmarks trading higher on Friday even as Wall Street struggled for direction amid caution around the Fed's plan for aggressive policy tightening and the war in Ukraine. Crude oil was poised for a 3 percent weekly drop after consuming countries agreed to release 240 million barrels of oil from emergency stocks to help offset disrupted Russian supply. While, the US dollar extended gains after James Bullard, president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, said the Fed is behind the curve on interest rates and he favors raising policy rates to 3-3.25 percent in the second half of 2022. Chinese shares gained, despite Shanghai reported more than 21,000 daily cases, casting doubt on President Xi Jinping's stringent zero-tolerance strategy.
Nikkei 225 higher by 35.06 points or 0.13% to 26,923.63, Taiwan Weighted gained by 128.76 points or 0.75% to 17,307.39, KOSPI increased by 4.43 points or 0.16% to 2,700.29, Jakarta Composite rose by 61.41 points or 0.86% to 7,188.78, Shanghai Composite climbed by 17.84 points or 0.55% to 3,254.54, and FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI up by 3.91 points or 0.24% to 1,604.70.
Bucking the trend, Straight times declined by 24.13 points or 0.71% to 3,380.10, and Hang Seng down by 70.31 points or 0.32% to 21,738.67.
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