At 9.31am, the FBM KLCI was up 19.98 points or 1.33% to 1,518.81. Turnover was 1.37 billion shares valued at RM681.61mil. There were 710 gainers, 95 losers and 168 counters unchanged.
Bloomberg reported Japanese, Australian and Korean shares opened up over 2%. Futures on the S&P 500 advanced after the index erased losses and closed higher Monday.
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