# Asia-Pacific Markets, Higher Overall Live Trading News is an independent financial media publication. Masthead: Live Trading News. Parent: Knightsbridge Group. Product cousin: KXCO (kxco.ai). Coverage: markets, policy, AI, quantum, blockchain, FX, biotech, ASEAN. New stories are signed ML-DSA-65 and anchored on Armature L1; articles published before the platform launch are not signed. Nothing on the site is investment advice. Canonical HTML: https://www.livetradingnews.com/asia-pacific-markets-higher-overall Last modified: 2021-05-19 --- By Paul Ebeling · 2021-05-19 Tags: Shayne Heffernan on Investments, Stocks, stocks, China, Japan, Asia, Paul Ebeling, Australia, Asia, #NewZealand, HongKong Signed: no (published before platform launch). Nothing in this article is investment advice. [#Asia](https://www.livetradingnews.com/tag/asia)-Pacific [#stocks](https://www.livetradingnews.com/tag/stocks)[#Australia](https://www.livetradingnews.com/tag/australia) #NewZealand [#Japan](https://www.livetradingnews.com/tag/japan) #[China](https://www.livetradingnews.com/?s=china)[#HongKo](https://www.livetradingnews.com/tag/hongkong)ng Hong Kong stocks rise for 3rd day running as energy, telecom firms gain China stocks edge higher on energy, transport gainers Japanese shares spike as investors shrug off GDP data to buy battered stocks Gold, energy stocks lift Australia shares as commodity prices firm Asia-Pacific Indexes Data as of 18 May 2021. All quotes delayed at least 15 mins. Symb Index Time Last Chg Chg % .TRXFLDJPP Thomson Reuters Equity Japan Index 18 May 2021 167.15 +2.49 +1.51% .TRXFLDHKP Thomson Reuters Equity HK Index 18 May 2021 342.55 +4.59 +1.36% .TRXFLDINP Thomson Reuters Equity India Index 18 May 2021 1,811.02 +24.00 +1.34% .N225 Nikkei Stock Average 225 18 May 2021 28,406.84 -- --% .HSI Hang Seng Index 18 May 2021 28,593.81 +399.72 +1.42% .AORD ASX All Ordinaries Index 8:16pm EDT 7,186.40 -112.70 -1.54% .KS11 KOSPI Index 18 May 2021 3,173.05 +38.53 +1.23% .SETI SET Composite Index 18 May 2021 1,566.80 -- --% .JKSE Jakarta Composite 18 May 2021 5,834.39 -- --% .PSI PSE Composite Index 17 May 2021 6,244.74 -- --% .SSEC Shanghai Composite Index 17 May 2021 3,529.01 -- --% .BSESN S&P BSE Sensex 18 May 2021 50,193.33 +612.60 +1.24% .FTFBMKLCI FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI 18 May 2021 1,591.32 +7.86 +0.50% .HNX30 HNX 30 Index 17 May 2021 438.98 -3.03 -0.69% Have a healthy day, Keep the Faith! --- This Markdown mirrors https://www.livetradingnews.com/asia-pacific-markets-higher-overall. The HTML page is canonical. Site index for AI clients: https://www.livetradingnews.com/llms.txt