Asian markets exhibit mixed trend on Friday; Nikkei surges 2%

25 Jan 2013 Evaluate

Asian equity indices are exhibiting mixed trend in Friday’s morning deals with Japanese Nikkei surging over two percent on the back of a weaker yen. The yen resumed its downtrend after a brief rally as the country’s Vice Finance Minister indicated the new hawkish government would step in to stop the currency from returning to record highs against the dollar. Sentiments also got boosted after Japan’s core consumer prices slipped for a second straight month in the year to December, signaling the economy was still in deflation and piling more pressure on the central bank to adopt further stimulus steps to achieve its new inflation target. However, Seoul, which fell on weak economic growth figures Jan 24, took another  hit on Friday after index giant Samsung Electronics posted below-forecast  results for the October-December fourth quarter.

Shanghai Composite declined 6.72 points or 0.29% to 2,295.88, Hang Seng dipped 92.61 points or 0.39% to 23,506.29, KOSPI Composite tumbled 25.34 points or 1.29% to 1,939.14 and Taiwan Weighted dropped 43.20 points or 0.56% to 7,652.79.

On the flip side, Jakarta Composite rose 1.08 points or 0.02% to 4,419.81, KLSE Composite added 1.19 points or 0.07% to 1,636.44, Nikkei 225 surged 223.31 points or 2.10% to 10,844.18 and Straits Times was up by 7.16 points or 0.22% to 3,255.55. 

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