All the Asian equity benchmarks barring Jakarta Composite are trading in red terrain in the morning deals on Wednesday despite gains in global markets overnight with investors still observing the Ukraine/Crimea crisis, the caution over the Federal Reserve's policy meeting and on concerns about a slowdown in China. On the regional front, Japanese stock market dropped with a wider than expected trade deficit and a stronger yen triggering some selling at several counters. According to the Ministry of Finance, Japanese trade deficit is 800.309 billion yen in February that missed forecasts for a shortfall of 600.9 billion yen following the downwardly revised deficit of 2,791.7 billion yen in January. Among other markets in the Asia-Pacific region, Shanghai, Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malaysia and South Korea are trading lower, while Indonesia is trading notably higher.
Shanghai Composite slipped by 18.99 points or 0.94% to 2,006.20, Hang Seng declined 50.62 points or 0.23% to 21,532.88, KLSE Composite contracted 2.68 points or 0.15% to 1,818.02, Nikkei 225 crumbled by 64.03 points or 0.44% to 14,347.24, Straits Times declined by 19.96 points or 0.65% to 3,073.88, KOSPI Composite dropped by 2.87 points or 0.15% to 1,937.34 and Taiwan Weighted was down by 38.45 points or 0.44% to 8,693.49.
On the flip side, Jakarta Composite was up by 21.28 points or 0.44% to 4,826.89.
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