Daily Asian Stock Market Review

Asian - August 9^th: Asian. The Australia ASX All Ordinaries going down 0.15% to 5,628.24, while the HANG SENG INDEX  going up 0.12% to 22.492.43 and the NIKKEI 225 INDEX  going up 0.69% to close at 16.764.97.

NIKKEI 225 INDEX

• The best performers of the session on the Nikkei 225 Index  were The Japan Steel is up 10.61% to trade at 511.0 at the close. Asahi Kasei Corp. added 6.91% to end at 822.9 and SUMCO Corp. was up 5.96% to 853.0 in late trade. 
• The worst performers of the session were Dainippon Screen Mf. which fell 9.03% to trade at 1,123.0 at the close. Toho Zinc fell 7.34% to end at 328.0 and Mitsubishi Material. was down 5.10% to 270.0

Hong Kong Hang Seng Index

• The top performers on the Hong Kong Hang Seng Index were Sands which rose 5.23% to 32.405, Galaxy which was up 3.22% to settle at 27.27 and Tingyi which close 2.06% to close at 7.42
• The worst performers were MTR which was down 4.02% to 41.77 in late trade, Wharf which lost 2.29% to settle at 52.05 and Hang which was down 1.69% to 16.92 at the close.

Australia ASX All Ordinaries

• The top performers on the ASX were Zimplats Holdings which rose 30.43% to 6.000, Royal Wolf which was up 13.30% to settle at 1.235 and Yancoal Australia. which gained 9.52% to close at 0.115
• The worst performers were Dome Gold which was down 22.81% to 0.220 in late trade, Bell Financial which lost 15.34% to settle at 0.690 and iCar Asia which was down 8.25% to 0.445 at the close.

Commodities NYMEX

• Gold Futures was up 0.87%, to trade at $1,358.45 a troy ounce.
• The Silver futures for May delivery was up 2.45% to trade at $20.337 an ounce.
• Also on the NYMEX the WTI crude oil for July was down 1.29% to hit $42.23 a barrel.
• Natural Gas on the same market for May closed at $2.630 per million British thermal units,to close at 0.75%.

Forex

• EUR/USD was up 0.51% to close at 1.1172, while USD/JPY was down  0.55 to close at 101.32.
• The US Dollar Index was down 0.51% to close at 95.57.

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