The week began with declines of stock markets in Asia, the main reason for which the problems of Greece and downgrade leading companies from Japan and South Korea by the agency Standard & Poor’s. Today, the regional index MSCI Asia Pacific is moving with a fall of 1.4 per cent to 134.25 points, which would found during the indicator to its lowest closing level since March 29th. The agency Standard & Poor’s downgraded the Japanese company Tokyo Electric Power, which is the operator of damaged nuclear power plant in Fukushima. Overall, the Japanese market outlook was lowered to requiring increased care. Tokyo Stock Exchange today, the Nikkei 225 fell 0.9 percent to 9558 points, while South Korea’s KRX 100 also retreated as to 4463 points. In China’s CSI 300 lost 0.9 per cent, while major indexes in Hong Kong and Taiwan retreated by 1.3 and 1 per cent.
“The problems of Greece worried markets because it is clear that the situation has not gotten his response,” said Nader Naeimi from AMP Capital Investors for Bloomberg. The global growth goes through lower growth, which is negative for Asian exporters as a whole, “explains the analyst.

Supported by the good performance on Wall Street yesterday, today Asian markets started trading with good positions. Tokyo shares were highly sought by the manufacturer of cameras and camcorders Canon, which rose by 7%, despite weak financial results, announced yesterday. The investors have already calculated the bad news due to earthquake and nuclear disaster, say brokers. That is why the message of the credit rating agency Standard & Poor’s, that will worsen its assessment of the risk profile of Japan, not to cause the Exchange. The shares of Sony registered a decline of 2%, after the Group recognized a successful hacker attack. Unknown persons have gained access to personal data such as name, address, email and date of birth, wrote today in the Sony company’s blogs worldwide. Subsequently, attention in Japan shifted from the financial results of companies to the two-day meeting of Fed Reuters. The remaining shares of major Japanese companies grew – Honda’s shares rose 1.5 percent, while those of Advantest – 1,7%. The index Nikkei, which covers 225 companies closed with an increase of 1.4% of 9691 points. The broader Topix index added 0.8 percent and reached 839 points. Stock exchanges in Singapore, Taiwan and Hong Kong also switched to green. Exchanges in Korea and Shanghai does almost not change its index.

The stock market indexes in Asia and the Pacific fell into today’s session after the operator of nuclear power Fukushima-1 – Japan’s Tepco, began to pour radioactive water into the Pacific. The Tepco Shares fell 18% to a record low for the past 60 years the price of 362 yen on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. The decreases of the manufacturers of computer chips, yesterday after a report of the Association of chip makers showed that sales worldwide fell by 1.1 percent on a monthly basis to 25.5 billion dollars in February. With a fall of 3.1 percent is moving and the shares of Toyota because of speculation that a shortage of parts resulting from the earthquake and tsunami which swept through the country on March 11, will force the company to close its plants in North America. The shares of the stock exchange operator Singapore Exchange, however, rose 5% after release of the Treasury of Australia, it may reject its bid to acquire the largest Australian stock exchange operator ASX Ltd. The regional index MSCI Asia Pacific fell 0.7 percent to 135.17 points in today’s session. Tokyo Stock Exchange’s Nikkei 225 lost 1.1 percent to 9 615.55 points, while in India BSE Sensex 30 slid 0.1 percent to 19 678.80 points. The financial markets in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan were closed today for the celebration of national holidays. The positive territory over the session in South Korea, where the Kospi rose 0.7 percent to 2130.43 points, marking a new record high levels.
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The Asia stock index ended the week with solid increases, as market optimism prevailed for the fourth consecutive day. For this helped good news for decline in initial unemployment in the U.S. who supported shares of exporters in the region.
“The decline in applications for unemployment benefits in the U.S. increased confidence that the country is on track to higher employment, which will make sustainable recovery,” said Shane Oliver of AMP Capital. “This is great news for Asian exporters,” said the specialist.
Today the regional MSCI Asia Pacific Index advanced 1.2 percent, heading for its highest close since February 21. For the week the index rose 1.9 percent, erasing most of the experience of last week’s decline of 2.1 percent. The Tokyo Stock Exchange’s Nikkei 225 advanced 1 percent to 10 693.66 points, which brought him a weekly increase of 1.6 per cent. It also helped the retreat of the yen, sparking speculation about higher profits for exporters. The main index in Hong Kong – Han Seng, rose 1.2 percent today, ending the session at 23,409 points. Weekly the index rose by 1.7 per cent. In China’s CSI 300 rose 1.5 percent today, but in Taiwan and South Korea advanced indexes respectively with 0,5 and 1,9 per cent.

The stock market indexes in Asia and the Pacific rose in trading today, led by technology companies after the computer manufacturer Dell announced nearly threefold increase in profits for last quarter. The session began hesitantly because of yesterday’s losses in the leading index on Wall Street. Depreciation of the yen, however, helped the Japanese Nikkei 225 index to rise by 0.6 percent to 10 808.30 points. The Japanese economy shrank in the last quarter of 2010, but its regular monthly meeting yesterday the Bank of Japan expressed hope that this pause in the economic recovery was temporary. Well in today’s session presented Japanese exporters, led by shares in Toshiba, having risen by more than 3%. Companies in the financial sector also came among the most profitable. The Australian Index S & P / ASX 200 remained almost unchanged at 4 930.20 points, while South Korea’s Kospi fell 1.1 percent to 1 989.11 points. Shares of mining company BHP fell 1.8 percent on the stock exchange in Sydney, despite news of its record profits in the second half of 2010 amounted to 10.7 billion dollars. Wide Chinese Shanghai Composite Index rose 0.9 percent to 2924 points while the Hang Seng rose 1.1 percent to 23,157 points a jump in share prices of industrial companies and steel producers.
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The stock indexes in Asia-Pacific region is moving with rises for seventh straight session, while copper prices jumped to record levels on the London Metal Exchange. For the stock optimism in early 2011 helped the data for expansion of production in the U.S., China and the euro area. The regional index MSCI Asia-Pacific, which includes slightly more than 1000 stock companies from ten Asian countries, Australia and New Zealand increased by 0.4 percent to 138.60 points and is on track to record its longest winning streak 21 June onwards. Tokyo Stock Exchange’s Nikkei 225 index jumped 1.7 percent to 10 398.10 points after three weekends. Strong presented the shares of auto companies in pending sales to increase this year. The stocks of Toyota, which was the losing share in the composition of the MSCI Asia-Pacific in 2010, jumped 1.4 percent in today’s session. The reason for this was forecast company car, hybrid car Prius in the series will become the best-selling brand in the U.S. by the end of this decade. The Japanese Nikkei 225 index significantly lagged behind in performance of the other indexes in the region declined by 3% in 2010 Moreover, the Chinese gave a broad index Shanghai Composite, which fell by over 15% last year. In today’s session Shanghai Composite added 1.6 percent to 2853 points.
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The stock indexes in Asia-Pacific region rose sharply in trading today and removed significant part of its loss from the previous four sessions, which reached 10% for Chinese index Shanghai Composite. Most increase the share price in Japan, Hong Kong and South Korea, and the banks ran the most profitable companies. Leading Japanese Nikkei 225 index rose 2.1 percent to 10 013.63 points. He jumped over the psychological level of 10 thousand points for the first time since June. In Hong Kong Hang Seng rose 1.8% to 23 637.39 points while the Shanghai Composite rose 0.9 percent to 2865 points. The regional index MSCI Asia Pacific added 1.4 percent to 131.65 points, after spending the previous four sessions at a loss of 4.5 percent which was the largest since August 2009. The sale of shares in the previous days were dictated by concerns about the measures the Chinese government to curb the growth of inflation, bank lending and the economy. Beijing confirmed yesterday that it may impose controls on the rise in commodity prices, which are of basic necessity. In Australia the S & P / ASX 200 rose 0.3 percent to 4640 points, so as to enhance and Taiwanese Taiex. Today it became clear that the Taiwanese economy has grown significantly with the 9.8% yoy in the third quarter. In the second gross domestic product increased by nearly 13 per cent.
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Last for this week trading session in the Asia-Pacific region has brought losses of indexes although by the Japanese government announced a new plan to stimulate economic growth. Fall in commodity prices reduced the shares of companies in the extractive and energy sectors, but among the losers came primarily shares of technology companies. Regional index MSCI Asia Pacific, which covers the securities markets in ten Asian countries, Australia and New Zealand fell by 0.5 percent to 129.98 points. His loss is a first for the last six sessions. Yesterday MSCI Asia Pacific reached its strongest level in two years, influenced by expectations that central banks of major countries are preparing to step up their actions to inject more money into the banking system and economy. Since the beginning of this year MSCI Asia Pacific rose by 7.9 percent, as is a 2.3 percent above levels from last Friday after today’s decline. With the strong decline today to distinguish the Tokyo Stock Exchange, where the Nikkei 225 lost 1% to 9 588.8 data after the Council of Ministers for the sharp deterioration in the evaluation of companies in the services sector of the state of the current business environment in the country. The Japanese government announced meanwhile that it plans to spend another $ 60 billion for measures to promote economic growth and improve the labor market. The new plan, however, has yet to be approved in parliament. Earlier this week Bank of Japan announced that it will continue to inject liquidity in the financial system by lending to banks and buying securities from them. Its main rate dropped to the range of 0% -0.1%.
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The stock market indexes in Asia and Pacific region rose for a third day, increasing his lead this week. Technology and mining companies helped the most to the good performance of securities markets in Sri Lanka, Thailand and Taiwan today. Excessive pessimism among investors about the recovery of U.S. economy gradually faded because of good data on projected sales of U.S. homes in July, the increase in retail sales and reduction of planned cuts by employers in August. Regional stock measure MSCI Asia Pacific, which covers the securities markets in ten Asian countries plus Australia and New Zealand increased by 0.4 percent to 119.79 points in today’s trading. After increases of the past three sessions, its value is 2.5 percent above the level of the previous week. To increase MSCI Asia Pacific helped best data on the growth of the Australian economy and the manufacturing sector in China and USA. Stock and increase optimism after the decision of the Bank of Japan to flow more liquidity in the banking system and the news that the government of preparing new stimulus to support companies that are threatened by the strong appreciation of the yen in recent months. Sony’s shares rose 2.4 percent due to depreciation of the Japanese yen. Chief Japanese Nikkei 225 index rose 0.6 percent to 9 114.13 points, increasing his winnings for the week up 1.4 percent.
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The stock market indexes in Asia and the Pacific failed to find a common direction in today’s volatile session, having cut its winning series from the previous four days. Appreciation of the yen and comments from Federal Reserve yesterday for the deterioration of the U.S. economy shaken investors and decreased indices in Japan, South Korea, Thailand and Sri Lanka. Meanwhile, trade in China, Singapore, India and New Zealand moves to positive territory. Because of the disparate movements of the indexes MSCI Asia Pacific remains unchanged at a level of 119.45 points, up 7.5% below its highest point this year, celebrated on April 15. By the end of yesterday’s session MSCI Asia Pacific reached its highest level in nearly three months. The exchange in Tokyo the Nikkei 225 fell 0.6 percent to 9 696.02 points after yesterday’s rise of nearly 3 percent. Shares of the largest Japanese producer of household appliances with Panasonic sank 8.6 percent after speculation that the company may issue new shares for 5.7 billion dollars. The funds will be used to allow Panasonic to gain full control over your units Sanyo Electric and Panasonic Electric Works. The news increased by 2.5% share price of the Panasonic Electric Works and a 25% stake in Sanyo Electric of Tokyo Stock Exchange.
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