(ANSA) – MILAN, June 28 – The main stock exchanges in Asia and the Pacific closed in no particular order in the wake of Western lists. Tokyo gained 0.66%, Taiwan lost 0.7%, Seoul was up 0.84% and Sidnery was up 0.86%. Still open Hong Kong (+ 0.38%), Shanghai + 0.61%), and Mumbai -0.27%).
US futures were positive, with German and French consumer confidence just below analysts’ estimates. An intervention by ECB President Christine Lagarde is expected today, while numerous macro data are arriving from the US, including advances on weekly crude oil stocks. Precisely the latter appears to rise (Wti + 1.45% to 111.15 dollars per barrel) together with natural gas (+ 0.31% to 129.85 euros per MWh), which reverses the route on the Amsterdam market. Gold was weak (-0.46% at $ 1,829.06 an ounce), while iron was positive (+ 4% to $ 791.5 a ton) and steel (+ 2.19% to $ 4,338 a ton). ton), with the recovery of demand from China. The dollar fell against the euro (1.06) and the pound sterling (1.22) but not the yen, which strengthened to 135.61 on the greenback.
The banking giant Mizhuo (+ 1.41%) and rival Nomura (-0.26%) contrasted on the Tokyo market. Semiconductor producers Sumco (-1.69%) and Screen Holdings (-0.6%) were weak, Toyota auto producers jumped (+ 2.17%). Honda (+ 2.36%) and Mazda (+ 2.78%). (HANDLE).
Source: Ansa
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