Asia: Rising exchanges with Greece in focus, Nikkei + 1.6% – Dagens Industri

Asia: Rising exchanges with Greece in focus, Nikkei + 1.6%

                  2015-07-13 09:02
             

 (SIX) The leading Asian markets opened the trading week on  zero, where, among other things, the Nikkei advanced with support from Wall  Street. Shanghai Stock Exchange, which has fallen sharply recently, continued  their recovery, rising by 4.2 percent. Investors closely follows  developments in Greece now entered a crucial stage.       On the Tokyo Stock Exchange's Nikkei 225 rose by 1.6 percent to 20,090 while  the broader Topix was up 1.9 percent to 1,614.       Greece Negotiations will continue in the euro group on  Monday after an intense weekend where the planned summit  EU Heads of State and Government were canceled.       During the morning there have been claims that an agreement  has been reached which has not yet been confirmed.       Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel wrote on Monday morning on the  Twitter the short message "agreement", a possible signal that  Euro Group may have agreed in Greece negotiations. It is  writing  unclear exactly how the statement should be interpreted.       On the statistics front, sank the Japanese industrial production by  seasonally adjusted 2.1 percent in May compared to the previous  month, according to revised statistics. The preliminary outcome indicated  a decline of 2.2 percent.       China's trade balance showed a surplus of 46.5 billion  dollars in June. That compares with a surplus of 59.5  billion in the preceding month, and analysts  forecasts that pointed to a surplus of $    55.3 billion.       Among the companies distinguished themselves Toshiba Corporation, which dropped 1.3  percent to the lowest level in over two years. Background to the weak  Course development is claim accounting fraud.                                           08:54 Today in years  Asia S & amp; P Pan Asia BMI 200 + 1.2% + 4.1%    Japan's Nikkei 225 20 090 + 1.6% + 15.1%  Japan Topix 1,614 + 1.9% + 14.6%  Hong Kong's  Hang Seng 24,877 -0.1% + 5.4%  South Korea Kospi 2062 + 1.5% + 7.6%    Australia S & amp; P / ASX 200 5,473 -0.3% + 1.1%    China, the Shanghai Composite 3,966 + 2.3% + 22.6%  China Shenzhen A 2217 + 4.2% + 50.0%    Taiwan TAIEX 9034 + 1.3% -2.9%  Singapore Straits Times 3296 + 0.5% -2.0%    India Sensex 27 701 + 0.1% + 0.7%  Thailand SET Index 1486 + 0.1% -0.8%  Malaysia KLCI 1713 -0.1% -2.7%  Indonesia Jakarta Composite 4887 + 0.6% -6.5%    Luke Östman  lukas.ostman@six-group.se  www.blogg.six.seSIXNews  SIX News