Exhilaration in Asian equities pause after Thursday’s sharp upsurge

02 Dec 2011 Evaluate

After showcasing a rollicking performance on Thursday, the benchmark indices across Asia are largely exhibiting signs of consolidation on last trading session of the week as investors remained cautious tracking the mixed leads from overnight Wall Street. The sanguinity over world’s top central bank’s move to spur liquidity gave way to nervousness in morning trades and kept marketmen on the sidelines ahead of the release an important US employment data and a crucial speech by German Chancellor. The market mood also was unenthusiastic on the back of mixed economic reports from the US where on one hand the manufacturing sector expanded at the fastest rate in five months in November, indicating that the world’s largest economy is gradually gaining momentum and not falling off the cliff while on the other, the Commerce Department said construction spending rose for the third straight month in October.

The benchmarks in China traded on a bleak note with sharp losses of over a percent as investors worried over the sharp declines in real estate prices and the deceleration in manufacturing activity in November too underscored the fact that world’s second largest economy is experiencing soft landing. However, shares in Japan bucked the pessimistic leads and traded in the positive territory with moderate gains on reports that the pace of growth in US factory activity reached its strongest rate since June.

Shanghai Composite plunged 27.09 points or 1.14% to 2,359.77, Hang Seng dropped 58.89 points or 0.31% to 18,943.37, Jakarta Composite fell 12.76 points or 0.34% to 3,768.34, Straits Times shed 16.93 points or 0.61% to 2,744.95, Seoul Composite slipped 5.54 points or 0.29% to 1,910.64 and Taiwan Weighted declined 44.29 points or 0.62% to 7,134.40.

On the flipside KLSE Composite gained 1.86 points or 0.13% to 1,487.12 and Nikkei 225 added 15.90 points or 0.18% to 8,613.28.

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