Today’s Market News |
Key developments on Friday: |
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Risk assets around the world are responding accordingly. The MSCI World and S&P 500 both hit new highs on Thursday.
Shanghai’s blue chip equity index is up 10.8% this week, its biggest weekly rise since December, 2014.
Hang Seng index’s 4% rally on Thursday brings its weekly gains to 9%, the most in 13 years. An index of mainland Chinese property stocks leapt 16%.
Expected on Fri will be a wave of profit-taking ahead of the weekend, especially as it is coming quarter end, and Chinese markets closed Oct. 1-7 for the Golden Week.
On Friday Tokyo consumer price inflation for September, expected fairly sharp slowdown in the annual core rate to 2.0% from 2.4%.
| Index | Last | Change | % Change |
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trading higher
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42,175.11 | +260.36 | 0.62%Positive |
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trading higher
Nasdaq Composite Index
.IXIC |
18,190.29 | +108.09 | 0.60%Positive |
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trading higher
S&P 500 Index
.SPX |
5,745.37 | +23.11 | 0.40%Positive |
| Index | Last | Change | % Change |
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trading higher
Nikkei Index
.N225 |
39,146.30 | +220.67 | 0.57%Positive |
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unchanged
Hang Seng Index
.HSI |
19,924.58 | — | — |
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trading higher
S&P BSE SENSEX Index
.BSESN |
85,836.12 | +666.25 | 0.78%Positive |
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