Asian stocks rose, with the regional benchmark index on course for its biggest gain since September, after slower-than-estimated U.S. economic growth stoked speculation the Federal Reserve may hold back from reducing stimulus.
The MSCI Asia Pacific Index increased 1.9% to 128.61.
Japan’s Topix index gained 2.8% and the benchmark Nikkei
225 Stock Average increased 3%. South Korea’s Kospi index jumped 2.9%.
Taiwan’s Taiex index and Singapore’s Straits Times Index both advanced
1.3%.
Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 Index added 1.7%, while New Zealand’s
NZX 50 Index rose 0.5%.
The Hang Seng China Enterprises Index added 0.1%. The Hang
Seng Index climbed 1%, while China’s Shanghai Composite Index swung
between gains and losses. Profits at the nation’s industrial companies
increased 12.3% from a year earlier in May, after rising 11.4% in April,
according to data released by the National Bureau of Statistics today.
Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest maker
of smartphones, climbed 6.2% in Seoul.
China Gas Holdings Ltd. gained
5.4% in Hong Kong after the supplier of natural gas to 172 Chinese
cities posted earnings that beat estimates.
Newcrest Mining Ltd.,
Australia’s biggest gold producer, jumped 6.3% as the bullion headed for
its first advance in four days.
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