Friday’s World Stock Markets: Asia-Pacific

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China’s blue-chip stocks closed a bit lower Friday, as investors digested the modest annual growth target set in the premier’s annual work report.

The blue-chip CSI300 index ended down 0.3% to 5,262.80, while the Shanghai Composite Index was flat to unchanged at 3,501.99.

Japanese shares fell for a 2nd straight session Friday.

The Nikkei share average edged down 0.23% to 28,864.32. The broader TOPIX closed 0.61% lower to 1,896.18.

Australian shares fell Friday. The S&P/ASX 200 index fell as much as 1.1% to 6,687.1 by 0002 GMT. New Zealand’s benchmark S&P/NZX 50 index fell 0.8% to 12,121.6.

Asia-Pacific Indexes

Data as of 5 March 2021. All quotes delayed at least 15 mins.

Symb

Index

Time

Last

Chg

Chg %

.TRXFLDJPP

Thomson Reuters Equity Japan Index

2:43am EST

165.84

+0.84

+0.51%

.TRXFLDHKP

Thomson Reuters Equity HK Index

4:44am EST

353.21

-2.37

-0.67%

.TRXFLDINP

Thomson Reuters Equity India Index

5:48am EST

1,757.75

-20.49

-1.15%

.N225

Nikkei Stock Average 225

1:15am EST

28,864.32

-65.79

-0.23%

.HSI

Hang Seng Index

3:09am EST

29,098.29

-138.50

-0.47%

.AORD

ASX All Ordinaries Index

12:40am EST

6,943.00

-57.60

-0.82%

.KS11

KOSPI Index

4:03am EST

3,026.26

-17.23

-0.57%

.SETI

SET Composite Index

4:51am EST

1,544.11

+10.00

+0.65%

.JKSE

Jakarta Composite

3:14am EST

6,258.75

-32.05

-0.51%

.PSI

PSE Composite Index

4 Mar 2021

6,881.37

-1.12

-0.02%

.SSEC

Shanghai Composite Index

2:59am EST

3,501.99

-1.50

-0.04%

.BSESN

S&P BSE Sensex

6:03am EST

50,405.32

-440.76

-0.87%

.FTFBMKLCI

FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI

4 Mar 2021

1,600.12

+18.86

+1.19%

.HNX30

HNX 30 Index

4 Mar 2021

382.14

+5.72

+1.52%

Have a healthy weekend, Keep the Faith!