Thursday 24 March 2016

Asian indexes ended mostly with declines

Most Asian indexes recorded declines on Thursday.
Japan's Nikkei 225 index fell 0.64 percent, while South Korean Kospi erased 0.46 percent. Hang Seng registered a decrease of 1.26%.
Shanghai Composite fell by 0.67%, while the smaller Shenzhen Composite added 0.18% to its value.
ASX 200 recorded a decline of 1.13%, pushed by the heavily-weighed banking sector, where the decrease was 2.5 percent.
Banks in Australia finished with sharp declines, shares of ANZ fell 5.21%, those of Commonwealth Bank of Australia fell 2.45%, Westpac wiped 4.58%, while shares of NAB fell 3 , 53%.
Japanese yen is trading  at 112.87 yen againts the US dollar. Despite the slight appreciation of the Japanese currency, the leading exporters closed the session with declines. Toyota wiped 1.56% of its share price, Nissan reported a decrease of 0.98 percent, while Honda declined with 1.6%.



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