Asian mkts trading mixed; Taiwan Weighted up 0.47%, Hang Seng down 0.32%

Asian mkts trading mixed; Taiwan Weighted up 0.47%, Hang Seng down 0.32%

Asian markets open the Wednesday session stronger, despite poor housing data from the US which sapped investor sentiment on Wall Street. However, major Asian markets are trading in red.

Taiwan’s Taiwan Weighted was trading up 0.47% or 31.42 points at 6687.01, Japan’s Nikkei 225 was trading up 0.43% or 40.17 points at 9330.46, South Korea’s Seoul Composite was trading up 0.05% or 0.67 points at 1428.88, KLSE Composite was trading up 1.13% or 11.48 points at 1023.49, NZSE 50 was trading up 0.03% or 0.842 points at 2791.646 and Jakarta Composite was trading up 0.09% or 1.647 points at 1887.663.

Among the losers, China’s Shanghai Composite was trading down 0.29% or 7.663 points at 2669, Hong Kong’s Hang Seng was trading down 0.32% or 55.58 points at 17,488.45 and Singapore’s Straits Times was trading down 0.44% or 10.01 points at 2250.35.

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