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• Global stocks scaled record highs on Friday, with Asian equities rising for the fifth straight session, as signs the Federal Reserve will pursue a gradual rate tightening path and hopes of a strong earnings season lifted appetite for risk assets.

MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan .MIAPJ0000PUS advanced 0.2 percent to its highest level in two years. It's set for a 3.1 percent gain for the week, its biggest since mid-March.

• Japan's Nikkei share average edged up on Friday as disappointing earnings from Fast Retailing, the world's third largest apparel retailer, offset gains made after Wall Street pushed higher.

The Nikkei index finished up 0.1 percent at 20,118.86 and a robust 1 percent higher for the week, though investors grew cautious ahead of a long holiday weekend.

• China stocks ended mixed for the week, with the blue-chip index closing at an 19-month high, while start-ups had their worst week since last July, as investors sought firms with solid fundamentals amid an extended correction in small-caps.

The blue-chip CSI300 index rose 0.4 percent, to 3,703.09 points, while the Shanghai Composite Index added0.1 percent to 3,222.42 points.

• Hong Kong stocks rose for the fifth straight day on Friday, recording their best weekly gain in a year, as the previous week's correction attracted bargain hunting from mainland China investors.

The Hang Seng index rose 0.2 percent, to 26,389.23, while the China Enterprises Index gained 0.5 percent, to10,728.07 points.

Reference: Reuters, CNBC