Equities markets in Asia and the Pacific region were lower on Wednesday, with many disturbed by overnight declines on Wall Street. In Australia, the Sydney Ordinaries were 0.54 percent lower to 6,363.2, while in India the Sensex fell 0.66 percent to 14,910.62. Declines were even bigger elsewhere as the Straits Times index in Singapore dropped [...]

Equities markets in the Asia-Pacific region were mixed on Monday. The Australian market saw declines, with the Sydney Ordinaries 0.19 percent lower to 6,298.6 and the S&P/ASX200 closing lower to 6,263.3. While retailers saw gains, banks were mostly lower and miners were mixed. Elsewhere in the region, the Straits Times index added 0.01 percent to [...]

Equities markets in the Asia-Pacific region were mostly higher again on Tuesday. The Sensex led the way, with a gain of 1.53 percent to 14,295.5 on strength in the banking sector. In Australia, the Sydney Ordinaries added 0.44 percent to 6,393.4, while the ASX 200 was 0.5 percent higher to 6,372 largely on bids speculation [...]

Most Asia-Pacific equities markets were higher on Monday, some of them reaching new record highs on the session. The main exception was in India, where the Sensex dropped 0.58 percent to 14,080.14. Records were set in South Korea, Indonesia, Singapore, Hong Kong, and the Philippines. In South Korea, the Kospi index closed at 1,806.88, a [...]

Global equities markets were higher on Thursday, with many indices in the Asia-Pacific region and in Europe rising by more than 1 percent – and in a few cases by more than 2 percent – on the session. In Asia, Korea’s Kospi index added 2.7 percent to 1,769.8 on huge gains among brokerages and shipbuilders. [...]

Asia-Pacific equities markets were lower on Wednesday. In Hong Kong, the Hang Seng index fell 0.28 percent to 20,578.75, while the Straits Times index in Singapore dropped 0.41 percent to 3,551.22. The Sensex was down 0.91 percent to 14,003.03. Meanwhile, in Australia, the Sydney Ordinaries were 0.92 percent lower to 6,210.1. In Tokyo, the markets [...]

Global equities markets were higher on Monday after last week’s losses. Asian markets were no exception. In India, the Sensex added 0.14 percent to 14,083.41. In Hong Kong, the Straits Times index was 0.52 percent higher to 20,615.49, while the Straits Times index in Singapore was up 1.34 percent to 3,545.46. The Australian markets were [...]

Asian and European equities markets were lower on Wednesday after exchanges in China fell significantly after the government there tripled the stamp duty tax on share transactions. The tax went from 0.1 percent to 0.3 percent and was meant to cool down the stock market there, where share prices have advanced by 60 percent so [...]

Most Asian and Pacific equities markets were higher on Tuesday. The main exception was the Hang Seng index in Hong Kong, which dropped 0.29 percent to 20,469.59. Elsewhere, the Straits Times index in Singapore added 0.36 percent to 3,527.08, while in India the Sensex was up 0.77 percent to 14,508.21 and in Australia the Sydney [...]

Asian and Pacific equities markets were lower on Thursday. In China, the Shanghai Composite dropped 0.5 percent to close at 4,354.4 after dropping by as much as 1.5 percent in afternoon trade. The decline came after the government there warned investors and brokers to take into consideration the risks involved in stock speculation. There are [...]