• MTS Futures News_PM_20180817

    17 Aug 2018 | SET News

·       European stocks opened mixed on Friday morning, following news the U.S. and China have agreed to hold their first trade talks since June next week.

The pan-European Stoxx 600 was flat shortly after the opening bell, with sectors and major bourses pointing in opposite directions.

Market focus is largely attuned to Turkey's ongoing currency crisis, with a dramatic fall against the dollar earlier this week sparking fears of contagion and a sell-off in emerging markets.

·       Asian shares won a modest reprieve on Friday after China and the United States agreed to hold their first trade talks since June next week and as the Turkish lira extended gains from its record low earlier this week.

MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan was up 0.46 percent, a day after it hit its lowest level in a year. Japan’s Nikkei advanced0.5 percent.

·       Japan’s Nikkei rose on Friday on hopes that talks between China and the United States next week would ease trade tensions, but chip-related stocks fell after Applied Materials disappointed investors with worse-than-expected earnings forecasts overnight.

The Nikkei share average ended 0.4 percent to 22,270.38. The benchmark index edged down 0.1 percent, following two straight weeks of declines.

·       Shanghai stocks closed at a near 31-month low on Friday, dragged down by a slump in healthcare firms amid a vaccine scandal fallout, but planned talks between the United States and China helped ease trade war fears.

The blue-chip CSI300 index ended 1.5 percent down at 3,229.62 points, while the Shanghai Composite Index closed down 1.3 percent at 2,668.97points.


Reference: Reuters, CNBC



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