After a meeting any green on Thursday, Asian stocks are back to fall on Friday after Beijing confirmed that he would continue his efforts of monetary easing and that the Chinese central bank ordered commercial banks in the country reduce their loans by the end of the year.
The meeting was marked by a very small volume of trade due to the closure the previous day on Wall Street for the holiday of Thanksgiving, which leads to a slight decline despite profit taking. "Thanksgiving was favorable to Japanese stocks, since adjustments of positions of the funds before closing their books for November coincided with Thanksgiving and the strengthening dollar on the yen," noted Kenichi Hirano of Tachibana Securities.
He added: "There are still foreign funds that close in December, so that impulse purchase is expected to continue until at least mid-December."
In markets very few assets, the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong lost 0.08% to 23,036.20 points and the Shanghai Stock Exchange was down 0.55% to 3205.65 points. As for values, property values and banks penalize the rating. Sung Hung Kai Properties was down 0.50% and China Construction Bank lost 0.30%.
In Tokyo, the Nikkei 225 Index closed down 0.40% to 10,039.56 points, reflecting profit taking investors after soaring nearly 10% since the beginning of the month, due to the lure foreign for Japanese stocks .. On the whole week, the Japanese index appears very slight increase of 0.17%.The consumer prices, excluding perishables, fell 0.6% year on year in October, their twentieth consecutive monthly decline.
On the currency markets, the yen regained ground against the dollar (+0.20% to 83.83 yen to the dollar), but retreated against the euro (+0.15% to 111.60 yen one euro).
In other areas of the region, the trend is almost identical, with two exceptions: the Singapore Stock Exchange gained 0.05% to 3160.66 points and the Stock Exchange Sydney ahead of 0.11%. In contrast, Taiwan 0.45% to 8312.15 loose points, Seoul dropped 1.49% to 4010.92 points and the Bombay Stock Exchange to yield 1.08% 19,109.30 points.