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• Asian stocks inched to new 19-month highs on Thursday with thanks to an ongoing rally on Wall Street and bolstered by gains in Chinese stocks while the dollar came in for a bout of profit-taking after a recent bounce.

MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan rose 0.2 percent to its highest since July 2015. It is up by a tenth this year thanks to more optimistic earnings expectations and an unwinding of bearish emerging market bets.

• Japanese stocks retreated on Thursday as a pause in the weakening of the yen gave investors an excuse to book profits, though financials extended their outperformance on rising U.S. yields.

The Nikkei share average fell 0.5 percent to 19,347.53 after scaling near six-week highs earlier this week.

• China stocks posted modest gains on Thursday as higher commodity prices and infrastructure spending continued to boost shares of firms in the materials sector.

The blue-chip CSI300 index rose 0.6 percent to 3,440.93 points, while the Shanghai Composite Index added 0.5 percent to 3,229.62.

• Hong Kong stocks closed at an 18-month high on Thursday, with sentiment boosted by Wall Street's ongoing rally and demand from China.

The benchmark Hang Seng index added 0.5 percent, to 24,107.70 points, the highest since August 2015, while the Hong Kong China Enterprises Index gained 0.2 percent, to 10,455.02 points.

Reference: Reuters,CNBC