Asian markets trade in all red on Wednesday morning

13 Nov 2013 Evaluate

The Asian markets have made a soft start with many of the indices suffering cut of around a percent in early trade on concern that the US Federal Reserve will soon begin scaling down its asset buying program, after Fed Bank of Atlanta President Dennis Lockhart said that a reduction in US bond purchases “could very well take place” next month. Some weak economic data from the region and disappointment over Chinese leaders' failure to outline steps to curb state dominance of the economy too appear to be weighing on sentiment to a significant extent. Japanese market too was trading lower after the Cabinet Office reported that core machine orders in Japan were down a seasonally adjusted 2.1 percent on month in September, following the 5.4 percent increase in August.

Shanghai Composite was down by 18.94 points or 0.89 to 2,114.79, Hang Seng plunged by 306.33 points or 1.34% to 22,595.08, Jakarta Composite was down by 54.74 points or 1.25% to 4,325.90, KLSE Composite declined by 7.84 points or 0.44% to 1,786.96, Nikkei 225 was marginally down by 13.68 points or 0.09% to 14,575.00, Seoul Composite was down by 19.52 points or 0.98% to 1,975.96, Taiwan Weighted gained 44.48 points or 0.54% to 8,150.78 and Straits Times was down by 7.52 points or 0.24% to 3,172.73.

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