Daily Asian Stock Market Review

Asian - August 24^th: Asian. The Australia ASX All Ordinaries going down 0.23% to 5,612.33, while the HANG SENG INDEX  going up 0.03% to 22.826.87 and the NIKKEI 225 INDEX  going down 0.25% to close at 16.555.95.

NIKKEI 225 INDEX

• The best performers of the session on the Nikkei 225 Index  were Toyobo is up 3.03% to trade at 170.0 at the close. The Shizuoka added 2.63% to end at 781.0 and Tokuyama was up 2.51% to 408.0 in late trade. 
• The worst performers of the session were Sumitomo which fell 4.87% to trade at 1,271.0 at the close. Shiseido fell 4.71% to end at 2,539.0 and Taho was down 4.32% to 310.0

Hong Kong Hang Seng Index

• The top performers on the Hong Kong Hang Seng Index were China which rose 11.07% to 14.45, Tingyi which was up 2.58% to settle at 7.55 and Cathay which close 1.62% to close at 11.31
• The worst performers were Kunlun Energy which was down 2.57% to 5.680 in late trade, China Resource  which lost 2.36% to settle at 20.67 and Belle which was down 1.88% to 5.23 at the close.

Australia ASX All Ordinaries

• The top performers on the ASX were Nearmap Fpo which rose 19.79% to 0.575, 3P Learning Ltd which was up 14.10% to settle at 0.890 and Southern which gained 11.79% to close at 1.375
• The worst performers were AWE which was down 15.08% to 0.760 in late trade, Western which lost 13.23% to settle at 4.200 and Zimplats Ltd which was down 12.32% to 4.200 at the close.

Commodities NYMEX

• Gold Futures was down 0.49%, to trade at $1,323.15 a troy ounce.
• The Silver futures for May delivery was down 0.29% to trade at $18.517 an ounce.
• Also on the NYMEX the WTI crude oil for August down 0.32% to hit $46.60 a barrel.
• Natural Gas on the same market for May closed at $2.821 per million British thermal units,to close at 0.75%.

Forex

• EUR/USD was up 0.27% to close at 1.1294, while USD/JPY was up 0.07 to close at 100.52.
• The US Dollar Index was down 0.11% to close at 94.63.

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