Asia stocks touch four-month top on dogged optimism | Malay Mail

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SYDNEY, June 24 — Asian shares crept to a four-month high today as investors remained stubbornly upbeat on the outlook for a re-opening of the global economy even as cases of the coronavirus looked to be accelerating to new peaks. MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan added...

People wearing surgical masks walk past a screen showing Nikkei index outside a brokerage in Tokyo February 3, 2020. — Reuters pic

Japan’s Nikkei firmed 0.1 per cent and Chinese blue chips 0.3 per cent. Caution was still evident elsewhere with E-Mini futures for the S&P 500 off 0.1 per cent and EUROSTOXX 50 futures easing 0.7 per cent. The European Union is even prepared to bar US travellers because of the surge of cases in the country, putting it in the same category as Brazil and Russia, theYet the market assumes there is a very high bar to shutting down economies again, so the impact on business activity will not be too great - at least as yet.

The better European data combined with the positive risk mood to keep the US dollar under pressure. Against a basket of major currencies it slipped back to 96.578 from a top of 97.719 at the start of the week.

 

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