The Asian indexes continue to win territory after the beginning of the positive trend on Friday amid optimism that the new government in Greece and Italy will help to contain the European debt crisis and after two influential Chinese economists said the economy is behaving as expected policies restricted lending, slow inflation and tame housing prices. The regional MSCI Asia Pacific Index rose 1.2 percent to 118.81 points today, about 4 shares it rose to each, which reduced its value, and 10 sub-index registered progress. The Japanese Nikkei 225 gained 1.05 percent to 8 603.70 points, after it became clear that the country has emerged from recession, growth in the second quarter of the Japanese financial year has reached 6% equated to an annual base, which is best result for the last 2 and half years. The shares of Nissan Motor Co. value increased by 2% to 719 yen, while those of the manufacturer of industrial robots Fanuc Corp. rose 3.6 percent to 12,810 yen.
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The stock market indexes in Asia and Pacific region rose significantly in today’s session, following the good performance of U.S. markets in yesterday’s trading. The regional index MSCI Asia Pacific jumped 1.3 percent to 139.25 points, marking the strongest performance since December 2. Index erase its loss this year due to improved investor sentiment about the world economy. The shares of Toyota Motor rose 3.3 percent on the Tokyo Stock Exchange after the data increased its U.S. sales in January. Mitsubishi Electric’s profit of 45.6 billion yen (560 million dollars) in the last quarter of 2010 helped by a strong 7.4 percent jump in share prices. It is well known and mining companies led by BHP Billiton, because of rising metal prices. All major stock indexes in the region rose in today’s session, while financial markets in China, Taiwan and South Korea were closed for national holidays. Japan’s Nikkei 225 has managed to add 1.8% to 10 457.40 points, while Hong Kong’s Hang Seng rose 1.8 percent to 23,909 points. The Stock Exchange of Singapore Straits Times rose 0.8 percent to 3 211.12 points, before closing tomorrow because welcome the lunar New Year. In India BSE Sensex 30 rose 0.4 percent to 18 100.30 points after strong declines in the previous four sessions. The stock exchanges in China, Hong Kong, South Korea and Singapore will be closed tomorrow because of holidays, while those in Taiwan and Vietnam do not work over the last seven days.
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The stock market indexes in Asia and the Pacific region resumed its upward movement today after the largest automobile company in the world – Japanese Toyota, increased its forecast for profit this year because of increasing sales in the U.S. and Asia. Tokyo stock indexes are best presented during today’s session, led by shares of Toyota, which rose 3.4 percent. The company management said it expects net profit of 340 billion yen (3.98 billion dollars) for the fiscal year to March 31st, 2011. Previous estimates had a positive financial result of 310 billion yen. The main Japanese stock index Nikkei 225 rose 1.7 percent to 9 653.92 points while the insurance protection from bankruptcy, the Japanese state fell to its lowest level in three months. The rate of the yen has remained almost unchanged against the dollar today after yesterday jumped to its highest level in 15 years. Stock optimism in Japan was also supported by remarks of the Prime Minister of the country forms of the Khan, who said the government is prepared to grant a new impetus to the economy by using the current budget provisions. He fears that high unemployment and expensive yen would hurt the economic recovery of the country.
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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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Today’s session brought indexes in Asia and the Pacific region, the strongest decrease their day for the past eight months, but ended the week with a painful decline in most markets in the region. Stood at the head Japanese, Chinese and South Korean securities market, which lost between 4% and 6% of its market capitalization over the past five trading sessions. Reason for mass sales became the news of the failure of the Dubai government investment holding company Dubai World to meet its obligations to creditors. The Fund has a debt for 59 billion dollars, equivalent to most of Dubai’s foreign debt to 80 billion dollars. Meanwhile, the Japanese yen rose to its highest rate against the dollar since 1995. Financial difficulties of the Dubai World stocks fell on banks and insurers in the region, led by HSBC Holdings, whose shares fell nearly 8 percent. This is due to investor concerns about exposure of large international banks to fund Dubai. Construction companies also suffered because of the activity of the Dubai World in the construction sector. The regional index MSCI Asia Pacific, which brings together companies from stock markets in ten Asian countries plus Australia and New Zealand, slid 3.2 percent to 113.78 points. This is the strongest decrease in the stock measure within one day of 30 March so far. Financial companies in its composition have contributed most to the sharp drop in MSCI Asia Pacific. The good news that unemployment in Japan fell for the third consecutive month in October, while consumer spending increased household failed to stop reductions in the indexes. Thus MSCI Asia Pacific to cut their lead to five-year bottom of 9 March to 61 percent. For the past five trading sessions the index fell by 2,7 percent.
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