Wednesday’s World Stock Markets: Asia-Pacific

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Around the region, MSCI’s Asia sans-Japan stock index was firmer by 2.03%,

China stocks finished higher Wednesday, with electric vehicle and healthcare shares leading the gainers, as the PBoC kept liquidity abundant to support economic recovery from the COVID-19.

The Shanghai Composite index ended 0.47% higher at 3,583.09 while the blue-chip CSI300 index added 0.72%.

The new-energy vehicle sector sub-index rose 4.6%, while the healthcare sub-index was up 3.57%.

The Shenzhen index ended up 1.36% and the start-up board ChiNext Composite index was higher by 3.905%.

Japanese shares retreated from early gains Wednesday on profit taking.

Nikkei share average finished down 0.38% to 28,523.26, the broader Topix closed down 0.34% to 1,849.58.

Australian shares ended up Wednesday, taking cues from overnight gains in Wall Street and optimism over domestic corporate earnings lent support.

The S&P/ASX 200 index finished +0.4% and New Zealand’s benchmark S&P/NZX 50 index rose 1.1% to finish the session at 13,026.45.

Asia-Pacific Indexes

Data as of 20 January 2021. All quotes delayed at least 15 mins.

Symb

Index

Time

Last

Chg

Chg %

.TRXFLDJPP

Thomson Reuters Equity Japan Index

2:39am EST

161.71

-0.52

-0.32%

.TRXFLDHKP

Thomson Reuters Equity HK Index

3:10am EST

371.70

+9.94

+2.75%

.TRXFLDINP

Thomson Reuters Equity India Index

3:10am EST

1,693.29

+10.99

+0.65%

.N225

Nikkei Stock Average 225

1:15am EST

28,523.26

-110.20

-0.38%

.HSI

Hang Seng Index

3:08am EST

29,962.47

+320.19

+1.08%

.AORD

ASX All Ordinaries Index

12:46am EST

7,051.00

+36.00

+0.51%

.KS11

KOSPI Index

1:32am EST

3,114.55

+21.89

+0.71%

.SETI

SET Composite Index

3:26am EST

1,522.06

-0.53

-0.03%

.JKSE

Jakarta Composite

3:14am EST

6,429.76

+107.90

+1.71%

.PSI

PSE Composite Index

19 Jan 2021

7,143.30

-55.15

-0.77%

.SSEC

Shanghai Composite Index

2:59am EST

3,583.09

+16.71

+0.47%

.BSESN

S&P BSE Sensex

3:26am EST

49,714.25

+315.96

+0.64%

.FTFBMKLCI

FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI

19 Jan 2021

1,608.93

+7.05

+0.44%

.HNX30

HNX 30 Index

18 Jan 2021

354.39

-23.58

-6.24%

Have a healthy day, Keep the Faith!