Asian Stock Markets Gain On US Tax Plan Hopes
Rukhshan Mir (@rukhshanmir) Published August 23, 2017 | 10:45 AM
Asian stocks mostly rose Wednesday, extending a global equities rally driven by growing optimism over a US tax reform plan and as investors look ahead to a key central bankers meeting
TOKYO, , (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 23rd Aug, 2017 ) - Asian stocks mostly rose Wednesday, extending a global equities rally driven by growing optimism over a US tax reform plan and as investors look ahead to a key central bankers meeting.
Markets have bounced back after struggling in recent weeks due to the continuing standoff between the US and North Korea, which has been compounded by Thursday's terror attack in Barcelona. The US president's woes have fuelled speculation he will struggle to push through his market-friendly economy-boosting policies that fanned a global market rally in the months after his November election.
Despite ongoing chaos at the White House, markets have been heartened by reports suggesting that the Trump administration was making headway on a tax reform plan. "Some of the US political uncertainty may have been removed by a report on the Trump administration making progress on tax reform, but a wait-and-see mood is strong ahead of Jackson Hole and tensions in North Korea still in place," Tsutomu Nakamura, strategist at Ueda Harlow Corp.
in Tokyo, said in a commentary. Tokyo's benchmark Nikkei 225 index was up 0.46 percent by the lunch break, while Shanghai added 0.02 percent, Korea ticked up 0.05 percent, Singapore rose 0.20 percent and Taiwan gained 0.28 percent in morning trading.
Sydney, however, fell 0.46 percent. Hong Kong's stock market was closed as powerful Typhoon Hato brought the southern Chinese city to a standstill.
All eyes are on the Jackson Hole symposium in Wyoming at the end of the week, which brings together the world's top central bank chiefs.
Much of the attention will be on Federal Reserve boss Janet Yellen, with hopes for some clues about the bank's plans to wind in its huge bond holdings. European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi's speech will also be closely watched as Frankfurt-based policymakers consider cutting back their own balance sheet.
"No one has a lot of interest in being very negative in the market right here, knowing that there's this whatever-it-takes backdrop where central bankers globally just have zero interest in seeing financial conditions tighten too much," Dennis DeBusschere, head of portfolio strategy at Evercore ISI, told Bloomberg Television.
- Key figures around 0300 GMT - =============================== Tokyo - Nikkei 225: UP 0.46 percent at 19,473.17 (break) Hong Kong - Hang Seng: closed Shanghai - Composite: UP 0.02 percent at 3,290.61 London - FTSE 100: UP 0.9 percent at 7,381.74 points (close) Euro/dollar: DOWN at $1.1760 from $117.64 Pound/dollar: DOWN at $1.2820 from $1.2821 Dollar/yen: UP at 109.64 Yen from 109.56 yen Oil - West Texas Intermediate: UP 12 cents at $47.71 per barrel Oil - Brent North Sea: DOWN 20 cents at $51.72 per barrel New York - Dow: UP 0.9 percent at 21,899.89 (close)
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