Asia’s
benchmark stock gauge was little changed, after posting its biggest
weekly advance in more than five months, as gains in pharmaceutical
stocks countered declines in utilities.
The
MSCI Asia Pacific Index rose and fell less than 0.1 percent before
trading at 152.30 as of 9:03 a.m. in Tokyo. The measure jumped 3 percent
last week, the steepest weekly gain since October, as Hong Kong
equities soared and Japan’s Nikkei 225 Stock Average briefly breached
20,000 for the first time since April 2000.
Machinery
orders in Japan slipped 0.4 percent in February from the prior month,
less than the 2.2 percent decline forecast by economists, a report
showed. China is due to report trade figures today.
Source: Bloomberg
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