All the Asian equity markets, barring Japanese Nikkei, are trading in fine fettle in early deals on Friday, tracking positive cues from Wall Street where the major averages ended higher overnight on some encouraging economic data. Stock markets in Indonesia, South Korea, Taiwan and Singapore are trading notably higher. While markets in Malaysia, China and Hong Kong were trading slightly higher as investors remained little cautious amid uncertainty about the U.S. Federal Reserve's stimulus plan, gains are just modest in some of the markets in the region. Whereas, the Japanese Nikkei remained lower as the yen strengthened against the dollar. Although, the country’s inflation accelerated to the fastest pace since 2008 in August on higher energy costs, Consumer prices excluding fresh food increased 0.8 percent from a year earlier.
Shanghai Composite rose 2.70 points or 0.13% to 2,158.51, Hang Seng increased 21.60 points or 0.09% to 23,146.63, Jakarta Composite strengthened 30.05 points or 0.68% to 4,435.94, KLSE Composite jumped 4.76 points or 0.27% to 1,778.92, Straits Times surged 22.08 points or 0.69% to 3,216.39, Seoul Composite added 5.93 points or 0.30% to 2,013.25 and Taiwan Weighted was up by 34.06 points or 0.42% to 8,218.74.
On the flip side, Nikkei 225 declined 34.59 points or 0.23% to 14,764.53.
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