Asian benchmarks in pull-back mode in Monday morning trades

14 Nov 2011 Evaluate

Stock markets in Asia have got off to a boisterous start in the Monday morning and most benchmarks have even rallied around two percentage points, a week after witnessing turbulent turns. Investors’ risk appetite improved on speculations that new heads of governments in Greece and Italy viz. Lucas Papademos and Mario Monti respectively, will help in averting Euro-zone’s debt debacle. Sentiments in the region also got a lift from over the weekend rally on Wall Street on the back of encouraging US economic reports that consumer confidence improved and as Europe made progress in resolving their sovereign debt issues.

The benchmark in Tokyo traded with smart gains of over a percent on the back of reports that Japanese economy unexpectedly expanded for the first time in four quarters post the catastrophic double whammy of earthquake and tsunami on March 11. Markets in other parts of Asia like Hong Kong, South Korea and Taiwan rallied over two percentage points underpinned by renewed hopes decisive actions to save the Euro-zone nations from bankruptcy are underway and the damage emanating from the Euro zone debt crisis will be limited.

Shanghai Composite surged 34.58 points or 1.39% to 2,515.67, Hang Seng jumped 452.90 points or 2.37% to 19,590.07, Jakarta Composite climbed 36.20 points or 0.96% to 3,815.08, KLSE Composite advanced 12.38 points or 0.84% to 1,481.13, Nikkei 225 soared 102.80 points or 1.21% to 8,617.27, Straits Times garnered 41.09 points or 1.47% to 2,832.03, Seoul Composite spurted 38.41 points or 2.06% to 1,901.86 and Taiwan Weighted zoomed 156.89 points or 2.13% to 7,524.18.

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