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Most Asia-Pacific’share markets lose ground
TOKYO. Sept 18: Most Asia-Pacific share markets lost ground on Wednesday in sluggish trade amid a lack of incentives and the ongoing Southeast Aslan currency crisis, reports AFP.
Japanese share prices closed 1.6 per cent lower, hit by selling from corporate investors who moved to take advantage of early gains following advances on Wal! Street, while Hong Kong markets were shut for a holiday. leaving regional investors with few directional cues.
Financial markets in Seoul were also closed for holidays.
In Tokyo, the key Nikkei Stock Average of 225 selected issues on the Tokyo stock exchange fell 291.23 points to end the session at 17,683.27, the broader Topix Index of all first section issues was down 20.27 points at 1,373.97.
The lead to buy at the outset was only gains in New York and Chicago (futures) trading," a Tokyo securities broker said.
Although many dealers started as buyers at the outset they turned sellers as soon as they saw the lack of follow-through buying."
Once the Nikkei 225 index fell below 17,900 points, it was easy for investors to hunt for bargains, brokers said.
Share prices closed lower, but off their lows, supported by
sporadic rounds of light bar-gain-hunting from pension funds, but the buying lacked strength to push share prices back into positive territory, brokers said.
"As there are no leads to encourage buying, the main buyers are limited only to pension funds." a broker said.
"Although bargain-hunting by pension funds emerges, they sell stocks in the broader market at the same time as they buy blue chips," a broker at Tokyo securities said.
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia's key stock index closed 1.9 per cent lower, dragged down by the weakening ringgit and amid a lack of fresh leads, dealers said.
The ringgit's fall below the 30,000 level against the dollar has further dampened sentiment. The market was drifting on very thin volumes amid a general lack of buyers," said an institutional dealer.
Another dealer said that most investors were reluctant to take positions ahead of the budget next month which Is expected to be hard hitting, and they were also waiting for the ringgit to strengthen.
The ringgit breached the psychological 30,000 level at the start of early trade Wednesday against the greenback. and hot’ered around The 30,100 level.
The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange 100-share weighted composite index fell 15.96 points to 881.12. The lesser second board index eased 12.69 points, or 3.0 per cent to 416.79 points.
SYDNEY: Australian share prices gained 1.0 per cent, with major stocks driven higher by reassuring economic data from the United States and a rally on Wall Street.
"Definitely the economic data in the states was the main driving influence In the local market," Henderson Charlton Jones dealer Scott Emms said, referring to the benign inflation data which reduced the chance of an interest rate rise.
The Australian Stock Exchange's main indicator, the All Ordinaries Index, rose 27.5 points to 2.679.3.
The all resources index rose 3.5 points to 1,330.3 and the all industrials Index gained 56.3 points to 4,395.4.
SINGAPORE: Singapore’s blue-chip stocks ended 0.5 per cent lower amid concern over the continued plunge in re-Sonal currencies against the S dollar, dealers said.
"Although wall street is up, the market was down, triggered by continued weaknesses in re-Slonal currencies. But the ownside seems limited," a dealer with a local stock bro-
kerage said.
The stock exchange of Singapore s blue-chip benchmark, Straits Times Industrials index, dipped 10.36 points to end at 1,910.24 while the broader All-Singapore Index fell 1.95 points to 462.18.
Elsewhere in the Asia-Pacific region:
BANGKOK: Thai share prices dropped 1.9 per cent after rating agency standard and Poor's downgraded Thailand's major financial institutions and amid political uncertainty, analysts said.
Trading was very thin because Hong Kong was closed. The market was down because of the Standard and Poor's downgrades on major banks that were announced today.” said a Deutsche Morgan Grenfell analyst.
The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) broad-based index dropped 9.81 points at close at 517.40 points, while the SET-50 index of selected stocks was off 0.92 points at 38.17 points.
JAKARTA: Jakarta share prices closed 1.5 per cent lower as lack of confidence reigned amid weakness in regional markets and currencies, dealers said.
"Basically, people are losing confidence in our economy, particularly as yesterday's government announcement was
unlikely to meet market expectation." an institutional dealer at a local brokerage said.
The Jakarta Stock Exchange composite index closed down 8,092 points at 526.737.
MANILA: Philippine share prices fell 1.7 per cent due to continuing political and economic uncertainty, dealers said.
David De La Cruz, vice-president of Amsteel Securities said "the issue here Is the uncertainty factor: what is going to happen on September 21." when the catholic church holds a rally to oppose alleged moves to extend President Fidel Ramos's term.
He also cited the fall of the peso in early trading during which It plunged to a new low of 32.65 pesos to the dollar.
The Philippine stock exchange fell 35.59 points to close at 2.073.96 points.
SHANGHAI: Shanghai s B Shares, nominally reserved for foreign investors, rose 1.0 per cent on thin turnover, analysts said.
"The B share market was on a technical correction on thin turnover due to the lack of fresh incentives." an analyst with a foreign brokerage house said, adding that he expected a consolidation
The Shanghai Stock Exchange's B share Index rose 0.8
points to close at 82.72 points. The A share index of domestically-traded shares fell 21.53 points, or 1.7 per cent, to close at 1,217.13 points.
TAIPEI: Share prices closed 1.7 per cent higher on government moves to txxjst the market. brokers said.
"Investors were encouraged by the government measures favourable to the bourse." said Cooper Liao, analyst with the Jih Sun securities investment consulting.
Among recent regulatory moves, the government increased share holding limits by insurance companies to 10 per cent of a listed firm's share capital. up from the previous five per cent ceiling.
The Taiwan Stock Exchange weighted price index increased 155.53 points to 9,087. 55.
AUCKLAND: The New Zealand share market surged in early trade before closing up 0.5 per cent on the eve of scheduled reserve bank economic projections.
"We've got the reserve bank tomorrow. Most parties in the market are thinking they will confirm the current level of the MCI (Monetary Conditions) as being appropriate." said Mark Stratford at first NZ Capital.
The NZSE-40 capital Index finished up 12.46 points at 2.538 98.