Asian stocks open in green near 1% high

Economies.com
2019-03-12 03:48AM UTC

Asian stocks opened green on Tuesday to join the US peers, which benefited from yesterday's gains in the technology sector amid investors' optimism that global monetary policy makers will be forced to deal with the slow pace of global economic growth in recent times. Attention is currently on the British Parliament vote on the revised plan for the UK exit from the European Union "Brexit" later today.

 

the Japanese stock indices have risen by nearly 2% in today's trading, TOPIX rose by 1.73% to gain 27.38 points up to 1,608.82, Nikkei 225 also rose  1.88% to gain 396.52 points up to 21,521.61 

 

China's index rose by more than 1% . The CSI 300 index rose 1.11% to 41.26 points, reaching 3,771.21. The Shanghai index rose 1.33% to 40.35 points and reached 3,067.35.

 

Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index rose 1.24% to gain 353.50 points reaching  28,856.80, while South Korea's Kospi rose 0.93% to 19.91 points, reaching 2,158.01.

 

To "NZX 50" rising 0.12% gaining 11.07 points to 9,401.91. On the other hand, Australia's S & P / ASX 200 index rose 0.37% gaining 22.71 points to reach 6,202.90.

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