Thursday, September 27, 2012

Asian stock market rose september 28 2012

Asian stock market rose september 28 2012, Japan's Nikkei stock ,  ; Asian shares rose on Friday on hope economic reform and budget plans unveiled by Spain will help the debt-saddled nation manage its debt imbalances, in a move seen as an effort to pre-empt the likely conditions of international assistance.

Global stocks, the euro and commodities rose while the dollar fell on Thursday after Spain announced a detailed timetable for economic reform and a budget based mostly on sharp spending cuts rather than tax hikes.

Madrid is talking to European Union authorities about the terms of a possible aid package, which would pave the way for initiating the European Central Bank's bond-buying programme aimed at easing the country's borrowing strains.

The MSCI index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan was up 0.2 percent, after jumping on Thursday on a spike in Chinese shares as speculation for stimulus spread. Australian shares were nearly flat and South Korean stocks rose 0.5 percent.

Japan's Nikkei stock average opened up 0.4 percent after touching a two-week low the day before. The euro traded at $1.2912, recovering from a two-week low of $1.2828 touched on Thursday.

Ten-year Spanish bond yields dipped below 6 percent on Thursday after topping that level on Wednesday for the first time since the ECB unveiled the bond-buying plan on September 6.

Spain faces a Moody's credit rating review this week and the release of a stress test of its banking sector on Friday which will reveal how much more money is needed to recapitalise its banks.

CHINA  EYED

Reflecting choppy market sentiment, the CBOE Volatility index which measures volatility expected in the Standard & Poor's 500 index fell 11.7 percent on Thursday for its sharpest daily decline in three weeks, just a day after the index posted its biggest daily rise in 2-1/2 weeks.

Talk authorities would offer measures to prop up the wobbly Chinese stock markets lifted the Shanghai Composite Index up as much as 3 percent on Thursday, one day after the index hit its lowest point since February 2009.

Sentiment was also buoyed by China's central bank injecting a record amount of liquidity into the money markets this week to ease funding strains as China heads for a week-long holiday.

Following fresh monetary stimulus unveiled by the United States and Japan this month, markets have also retained expectations for China to cut interest rates to spur growth, as weakening demand in China has damaged global economies and weighed on investor sentiment.

Beijing approved billions of dollars worth of infrastructure projects this month.

But China's biggest listed steelmaker, Baoshan Iron & Steel Co, which has suspended output at a loss-making plant, expressed doubt that attempts to prop up the slowing economy would revive demand in the world's biggest market for the metal. A slump in iron ore prices had triggered a broad sell-off in riskier assets.
 
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