American depositary receipts of Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc., Japan’s second-biggest bank by market value, climbed 1.9 percent from the closing share price in Tokyo. ADRs of Westpac Banking Corp., Australia’s second-largest lender, rose 1.1 percent. Those of Honda Motor Co. (7267), a Japanese carmaker that gets more than 40 percent of its sales from the U.S., gained 0.6 percent as new U.S. home sales beat forecasts.
Futures on Japan’s Nikkei 225 Stock Average (NKY) expiring in June closed at 8,595 in Chicago yesterday compared with 8,570 in Osaka, Japan. They were bid in the pre-market at 8,580 in Osaka at 8:05 a.m. local time. Futures on Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 Index rose 0.3 percent today. New Zealand’s NZX 50 Index slid 0.1 percent in Wellington.
Futures on the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index (SPXL1) were little changed today. The index rose 0.2 percent in New York yesterday, reversing a decline of as much as 1.5 percent, on optimism that European leaders meeting in Brussels will do more to contain contagion from the region’s debt crisis. A measure of homebuilders in S&P indexes gained as a report showed demand for new U.S. homes rose more than forecast in April.
The MSCI Asia Pacific Index (MXAP) has declined more than 10 percent this month through yesterday on concern political chaos in Greece increases the risk the nation will exit the euro zone and other debt-stricken nations such as Portugal and Italy may follow.
The Asia Pacific index dropped 1.6 percent this year through yesterday, compared with a 4.9 percent advance by the S&P 500 and a 2.1 percent drop by the Stoxx Europe 600 Index. Stocks in the Asian benchmark are valued at 1.2 times book value, compared with 2.1 times for the S&P 500 and 1.3 times for the Stoxx 600, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. A number below 1 means companies can be bought for less than value of their assets.
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