Most Asia-Pacific equities markets were higher on Tuesday. The exception was the Nikkei 225 in Tokyo, which dropped 0.2 percent to 17,248.89. The Topix index, however, closed barely higher at 1,706.18 and the Mothers market was 1.38 percent higher to 864.7. Earnings results and other news drove gains and losses on the [...]

Most Asia-Pacific equities markets saw gains on Monday. Even the Tokyo markets, widely expected to decline in case of a defeat by the ruling Liberal Democratic party in Sunday’s elections, managed slight gains after an initial retreat even though Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s party lost even more seats in the upper house than had [...]

Asia-Pacific equities markets were lower on Friday, extending Thursday’s declines and in some cases exceeding them. The biggest loser on the session was Taiwan’s Taiex index, which dropped 4.22 percent to 9,162.28, its steepest decline in over a year. South Korea’s Kospi index also lost more than 4 percent, dropping 4.09 percent to [...]

Equities markets in the Asia-Pacific region were mostly lower again on Thursday. The Shanghai Composite was again an exception as it added 0.52 percent to 4,346.46, a new record high, on corporate profits reports that have been better than anticipated in the first half of the year. The other exception was India’s Sensex, [...]

Equities markets in the Asia-Pacific region were mostly lower on Wednesday, but there were a couple of notable exceptions to the declining trend. In South Korea, the Kospi index added 0.6 percent to 2,004.22, the first time it has closed above the 2,000 level. The gains came after Moody’s raised South Korea’s debt [...]

Asia-Pacific region equities markets were mostly higher on Tuesday. The exception was the Shanghai Composite, which dropped 0.07 percent to 4,210.33 on the session. In India, the Sensex added 0.4 percent to 15,794.92. The Hang Seng index in Hong Kong was 0.46 percent higher to 23,472.88, while in Singapore the Straits Times [...]

Equities markets in the Asia-Pacific region were mixed on Monday. Gainers included Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index, which added 0.32 percent to 23,365.56. In Taiwan, the Taiex gained 0.37 percent to 9,621.57, while in India the Sensex was 1.07 percent higher to 15,732.2. In China, meanwhile, the Shanghai Composite closed at 4,213.36, [...]

Equities markets in the Asia-Pacific region were higher on Friday. In India, the Sensex added 0.1 percent to 15,565.55, while in Australia the Sydney Ordinaries gained 0.6 percent to 6,457.7. The Hong Kong and Singapore markets saw even bigger gains, with the Hang Seng index 1.2 percent higher to 23,291.9 while the Straits [...]

Asia-Pacific equities markets were almost universally higher on Thursday. The main exception was the Straits Times Index in Singapore, which fell 0.06 percent to 3,604.62. In India, the Sensex added 1.63 percent to 15,550 to reach an all-time high as it added 249 points on the session. Elsewhere, the Hang Seng index [...]

Most Asia-Pacific equities markets were lower again on Wednesday. India’s Sensex index was an exception, but it only added 0.07 percent to 15,301.17. In Australia, the Sydney Ordinaries dropped 0.79 percent to 6,367.2, while the Hang Seng index in Hong Kong fell 0.93 percent to 22,841.92 and the Straits Times index in Singapore [...]