All the Asian equity benchmarks, barring Jakarta Composite, are trading in the red in early deals on Friday as investors remained worried by how much the US Federal Reserve will cut its monthly stimulus at next week’s monetary meeting. The Fed is expected to reduce its $85 billion a month bond-buying programme at its two-day policy meeting ending on September 18, 2013. Meanwhile, Japanese Nikkei was trading in the red with a cut of over half a percent, as investors awaited industrial production data for July, which will be released later in the day. Little change is expected from last season’s preliminary reading that suggested a 1.6 percent monthly gain and a 3.2 percent yearly increase.
Shanghai Composite declined by 23.00 points or 1.02% to 2,232.60, Hang Seng shed 117.36 points or 0.51% to 22,836.36, KLSE Composite dipped 5.64 points or 0.32% to 1,766.76, Nikkei 225 decreased 105.64 points or 0.73% to 14,281.63, Straits Times slipped 2.52 points or 0.08% to 3,118.56, Seoul Composite decreased 9.51 points or 0.47% to 1,994.55 and Taiwan Weighted was down by 51.24 points or 0.62% to 8,174.12.
On the flip side, Jakarta Composite was down by 5.31 points or 0.12% to 4,361.92.
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