dimanche 12 avril 2015
Asian shares, dollar have a lackluster start to the week
Posted on 18:37 by nice news
Asian shares got off to a shaky start on Monday as recent rallies offered traders a profit-taking opportunity, while the dollar edged away from recent peaks in early trading.
MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan .MIAPJ0000PUS was down about 0.1 percent after touching its highest levels since September in the previous week.
Japan's Nikkei stock average .N225 was nearly flat in early trade, after rising above the 20,000 on Friday for the first time in 15 years.
Wall Street marked solid gains for both the day and the week on Friday, while the pan-European FTSEurofirst 300 share index .FTEU3 reached a 15-year high and Germany's DAX .GDAXI rose to a record.
A renewed drop in the euro powered the European gains, with the single currency slumping to a 3-1/2 week low on Friday. On Monday, it edged up slightly on the day to $1.0609 EUR=.
Against its Japanese counterpart, the dollar lost 0.2 percent to 120.11 yen JPY=, though divergent monetary policy expectations were expected to bolster the greenback in the long term.
"The U.S. Federal Reserve is in fact the only G10 central bank expected to raise interest rates in the coming 12 months, and as long as this remains the case we expect the U.S. currency to hold its gains against lower-yielding counterparts," David Song, currency analyst at DailyFX said in a note.
Crude oil prices edged down after logging weekly gains as an agreement on Iran's nuclear program seemed more elusive, lessening the chances of a rapid return of Iranian oil to the market.
MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan .MIAPJ0000PUS was down about 0.1 percent after touching its highest levels since September in the previous week.
Japan's Nikkei stock average .N225 was nearly flat in early trade, after rising above the 20,000 on Friday for the first time in 15 years.
Wall Street marked solid gains for both the day and the week on Friday, while the pan-European FTSEurofirst 300 share index .FTEU3 reached a 15-year high and Germany's DAX .GDAXI rose to a record.
A renewed drop in the euro powered the European gains, with the single currency slumping to a 3-1/2 week low on Friday. On Monday, it edged up slightly on the day to $1.0609 EUR=.
Against its Japanese counterpart, the dollar lost 0.2 percent to 120.11 yen JPY=, though divergent monetary policy expectations were expected to bolster the greenback in the long term.
"The U.S. Federal Reserve is in fact the only G10 central bank expected to raise interest rates in the coming 12 months, and as long as this remains the case we expect the U.S. currency to hold its gains against lower-yielding counterparts," David Song, currency analyst at DailyFX said in a note.
Crude oil prices edged down after logging weekly gains as an agreement on Iran's nuclear program seemed more elusive, lessening the chances of a rapid return of Iranian oil to the market.
Asian shares, dollar have a lackluster start to the week
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