Asian
index futures foreshadowed another day of gains for the region’s
stocks, with global equities on track for their best week since 2012
amid a bounce back in oil. No such luck for the dollar, which is
languishing near a three-week low versus major peers after minutes of
the Federal Reserve’s last meeting showed officials discussed how the
currency’s strength was damping inflation and that growing global risks
spurred them to stand pat on hiking interest rates in September. Copper
futures rallied.
The
S&P/ASX 200 Index gained 0.6 percent at the open in Sydney, set for
a weekly climb of 3.7 percent, while New Zealand’s S&P/NZX 50
Index, the first major stock index to start trading each day in the
Asian region, climbed 0.6 percent, headed for a 1.2 percent advance in
the week.
Nikkei 225 Stock Average futures were up 0.8 percent to 18,250 in the Osaka pre-market.
Futures
on the Hang Seng and Hang Seng China Enterprises indexes in Hong Kong
rose at least 0.3 percent. Chinese markets resumed trading Thursday for
the first time in a week, with the Shanghai Composite Index’s 3 percent
advance underwhelming investors who had seen the Enterprises gauge,
which tracks mainland stocks listed in Hong Kong, climb 11 percent in
the period China was out.
While
FTSE China A50 Index futures rose 0.8 percent in recent trade, the
biggest U.S. exchange-traded fund tracking Chinese shares fell Thursday
in New York, dropping 1.3 percent from a seven-week high as slowdown
concerns reasserted themselves.
Markets
in Taiwan and South Korea are closed for holidays Friday, with
Australian home loan data due and the Philippines due to report on
exports. Thailand will update on its foreign reserves.
Source : Bloomberg
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