Extractive companies and banks have brought a slight growth of Asian markets, after Australia & New Zealand Banking Group surprise their shareholders with news that will enter Taiwan, and metals prices rose. Meanwhile, companies in the residential sector of Japan and China are ranked among the losers, after local authorities in China have proceeded once again to restrict sales of land, while land prices in Japan reported its strongest decline for the past 36 years. The regional index MSCI Asia Pacific, which monitors stock markets in ten Asian countries, Australia and New Zealand, added 0.1 percent to 124.40 points during today’s session. Friday’s trading ended with significant decreases in most measures of national stock exchange in the region after the Indian central bank increased for the first time in the past two years its main interest rate as a step to combat rising inflation in the country. Most – by 0.7% to 3 053 points lower today Chinese broad index Shanghai Composite, followed by the index of blue chip Nikkei 225 in Japan, which slid 0.5 percent to 10 774 points. Of negative territory and closed stock trading in Taiwan, New Zealand and Sri Lanka. Meanwhile, the Australian index S & P / ASX 200 rose by 0.9 percent to 4 874.8 points, led by mining and financial companies. Shares of all major banks rose, with the most – by 3%, increase the price of shares of Australia & New Zealand Banking Group.
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Most major stock indexes in Asia and the Pacific withdrew to negative territory today after strong growth, which reported on Wednesday. Most of the stocks suffered sell-offs of Japanese exporters and those companies from the real estate sector. The regional index MSCI Asia Pacific, which includes stock companies from ten Asian countries plus Australia and New Zealand, losing 0.3 percent of its value today at 124.58 points after the end of yesterday’s session, rose by 1.5% to its highest level in two months. Despite the concerns of investors that are soon to tighten monetary policy in China and the U.S. stock indexes rally in Asia continued during the past six weeks. However, according to some financial analysts has made an assessment of market shares in the region too high. The index of blue chips in Japan, the Nikkei 225 slid 1 percent to 10 744 points yesterday after having surged by 1.2 percent. Shares of Canon and Mazda dropped by more than 2 percent after the yen rose against all major currencies. This makes the price of goods of Japanese exporters higher on foreign markets. Yesterday the Japanese central bank doubled the amount of the special program for lending to commercial banks in the country to 222 billion dollars. Shortly thereafter, the World Bank increased its forecast for economic growth in China, as already expected growth of 9.5 percent this year. Wide Chinese Shanghai Composite Index fell less with 0.1% to 3 046 points and the exchange in Hong Kong Hang Seng lost 0.3% to 21 330.67 points. Today it became clear that the Chinese government will carry out “stress tests” in 12 industries to assess the impact of any lifting of the yuan exchange rate.
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The first month of the new year has brought a loss of securities markets in the Asian and Pacific region. National stock indexes registered significant decreases on a monthly basis, which are highest for measures of stock in China and Hong Kong. They lost between 6% and 10% of its value last month amid a tightening of monetary policy of many central banks. The regional index MSCI Asia Pacific fell 2.5 percent below its closing by the end of December 2009 This is the strongest part of its loss in February 2009 then the stock measure, which covers the securities markets in ten Asian countries, plus Australia and New Zealand, losing 10 percent in one month and fell to multi-floor because of the crisis in the global economy. During today’s trading MSCI Asia Pacific sank 1.7 percent to 117.05 points up and is on track to record strong weekly loss of 4.5 percent. This is the strongest weekly decline for the regional index of March 2009 The reason for this largely rose the news that the central banks of China, India and the U.S. tightened its monetary policy, which will reduce investments in financial assets. Central Bank of India today increased the minimum mandatory reserves commercial banks must hold as a deposit on it. The rate now stands at 5.75 per cent of their deposits to the previous 5 percent, cited by Bloomberg. This is a measure to withdraw excess liquidity from the economy of India, which along with China is the fastest growing Asian country.
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