TOKYO – Asian equities were higher on Friday over hopes of developing a vaccine for coronavirus, although concerns remained about long-term economic damage from the pandemic.
The rise in regional benchmarks echoes the gains on Wall Street, which were led by large technology companies benefiting from people staying home during the outbreak.
Japanese benchmark Nikkei 225 NIK,
gained 0.3% in early trading. Hang Seng HSI from Hong Kong,
1.5% added, while the Shanghai Composite SHCOMP,
rose 0.8%. Kospi of South Korea 180721,
grew by 1.8%, while S & P / ASX 200 XJO of Australia,
was not much changed. Benchmark indices in Taiwan Y9999,
and Singapore STI,
earn.
Reports that Pfizer’s PFE,
fax is on track to control its October stimulus sentiment despite continued uncertainty about global growth, said Jingyi Pan, market strategist at IG in Singapore.
Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech said they would take their COVID-19 vaccine candidate with the least side effects in the final-stage test. It’s one of a handful of experimental faxes to reach end-to-end tests around the world.
“Asian markets have pushed Wall Street wide with gains, also helped by the latest impulse news sentiment for sentiment,” Pan said.
The S&P 500 SPX,
rose 0.3% after rallying back from a previous 0.6% loss as investors weighed in on new government data showing an increase in the number of Americans seeking unemployment assistance last week.
The discouraging report helped send two out of every three supplies into the S&P 500 army. Energy producers and financial companies had some of the sharpest drops. But tech shares in the S&P 500 still rose 1.4%, continuing with a remarkable run of resilience.
The S&P 500 scored 10.66 points after 3,385.51. The gains keep the benchmark index close to its record level. The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA,
received 46.85 points, or 0.2%, to 27,739.73.
The power in tech stocks helped lift the Nasdaq composite COMP,
up 118.49 points, or 1.1%, to 11,264.95, a record high.
Benchmark American Crude Oil CLU20,
fell 35 cents to $ 42.58 per barrel. Brent raw BRNV20,
, the international standard, received 13 cents to $ 45.03 per barrel.
The US dollar USDJPY,
inch to 105.70 Japanese yen from 105.87 yen Thursday.
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