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Asian summary

EQUITIES

A thinner volume session in Asia, with Japan observing a national holiday.

  • Equities have traded lower during the Asian session
  • Hang Sang retreated lower and down 1.71% at the time of typing, following Shares in banking giant HSBC plunging to a 25-year low Monday on fears it could be added to a Chinese list of firms deemed a threat to national security.
  • Kospi also traded lower despite some good export data. Kospi is down 0.78%.
  • Equity levels:
  • Nikkei: 23,360.00
  • China A50: 15,516.07
  • Hang Seng: 24,000.25
  • Kospi: 2,393.52.

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