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Asian Shares Mostly Lower On Lackluster China, Japan Data

The S&P 500 rose 0.8 per cent to 4,480.70 after another day of choppy trading. It was the biggest daily gain for the benchmark index since late August and it put the S&P 500 on pace to close the week higher.

Asian Stocks Up As Biden Signs Stimulus; Lower Yields Boost Tech

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Japan's Nikkei rose 0.99%, but China's blue-chip CSI300 index lost 0.43% as that country's high-valuation tech and consumer firms dragged.

Asian Stocks Rally After Dow Hits Record As Inflation Worries Ease

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The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 1.45% to a record closing high, the S&P 500 gained 0.60% and the Nasdaq Composite dropped 0.04%.

Asian Bonds Provide Refuge For Investors Fleeing Treasuries Turmoil

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Foreign investors have bought a net $41.5 billion of Chinese bonds since the start of the year, already about a third of what they did in all of 2020. Inflows into other emerging Asia bond markets this year are $2.8 billion, or 61% of last year's total.

Asian Stocks Edge Higher, Aussie In Demand On Recovery Signs

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The Australian dollar shined yet again, rising to $0.7828 after stronger-than-expected economic growth in the fourth quarter fuelled hopes for a V-shaped recovery from the coronavirus pandemic.

Asian Shares Fall Amid China's Asset-Bubble Warning

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Investors now eye China's annual session of parliament beginning on Friday, which is expected to chart a course for economic recovery and unveil a five-year plan to fend off stagnation.

Asian Stocks Rally, Battered Bond Market Tries To Steady

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NASDAQ futures bounced 1.2% and S&P 500 futures 0.9%. EUROSTOXX 50 futures and FTSE futures both rose 1.1%.

Commodities Rally, Stocks Steady, Yields Off Highs

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Tech stocks and rate-sensitive sectors like utilities in Europe however fell, offsetting stronger travel and commodity stocks and pushing down the regional benchmark by 0.6%.

Asian Stocks Slip As Global Rally Skids On Inflation Fears

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MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan fell 1.18% on Monday, after slipping from a record top last week as the jump in U.S. bond yields unsettled investors.

Equity indices on downswing, auto and pharma stocks lose

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Equity indices on downswing, auto and pharma stocks lose

Asian Shares Make Guarded Gains As Bond Yields, Resources Spike

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MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan added 0.2%, after slipping from a record top last week as the jump in U.S. bond yields unsettled investors.

Asian Stocks Step Back From Record Highs On Rising Bond Yields, Weak US Data

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Germany’s 10-year yield on Thursday posted its highest close since June, British 10-year yields traded at a 10-month top of 0.65% and U.S. Treasury yields are hovering near one-year highs around 1.3%, a large factor supporting the U.S. dollar.

Sectoral indices at the National Stock Exchange were mixed with Nifty IT down by 1.5 per cent and FMCG by 0.7 per cent. But Nifty metal rose by 2.9 per cent and PSU bank by 1.7 per cent.