World stock markets fell on Friday as investors turned cautious, profit taking point to evidence that the U.S. employment situation to improve, although from recent rallies.
Japan's Nikkei 225 index fell 0.5 percent, to close at 13,485.14 points, a slip of the day before, the Tokyo benchmark, the first time since August 2008, received more than 13,500. Nikkei Index has been riding on a the Japanese aggression bumpy world's third largest economy out of a prolonged slump in the Bank high.
Britain's FTSE 100 fell 0.5 percent to 6,382.75 points. Germany's DAX index fell 1%, the French CAC-40 index fell 0.8 percent, to 3,747.31 points. Wall Street also appeared a week after a record loss of revenue. The Dow Jones industrial average futures fell 0.1% to 13,779 points, the S & P 500 futures fell 0.1 percent at 1,585.50.
Evan Lucas in Melbourne IG Markets, said profit-taking put pressure on Australia's the resources important benchmark S & P / ASX 200 index rose 0.2 percent to 5,015.50.
, "He said in a commentary:" Unfortunately dampened what was otherwise a solid week for the local market, and may see more downward pressure, because it is the end of the week in the afternoon, investors will turn off Slot.
The world's largest mining company, BHP Billiton (BHP Billiton) fell 0.2%. Rio Tinto fell 2%. Woodside Petroleum Ltd. shares rose 3.2% after the energy company said it has shelved the proposed A $ 4.5 billion (U.S. $ 4.7 billion) liquefied natural gas plant project in northwest Australia because of rising costs.
South Korea's Kospi fell 1.3 percent to 1,924.23 points, jitter continuing tensions on the Korean peninsula. India's Sensex fell 1.5 percent to 18,269.16 points. Benchmark prices in Indonesia and Thailand. Mainland Chinese shares almost unchanged. Taiwan fell.
Hong Kong's Hang Seng index fell 0.1%, to 22,089.05 points. The market subdued trading as traders on their radar screen, maintaining the recent outbreak of bird flu in eastern China. Continued tensions and war like the rhetoric between North and South Korea stirred concern.
"There may be some profit-taking, because there is a technical rebound in Hong Kong fell sharply on Friday for a whole week, the Hong Kong First Shanghai Securities strategist Linus Yip (Linus Yip). "There are still a lot of uncertainty, in particular, no one knows what will happen before the end of the week, so maybe it is reasonable to profit-taking."
Wall Street closed higher on Thursday, major retailers such as Rite Aid towards better sales and weekly weekly jobless benefits unexpectedly fell after soaring. Investors wait for JP Morgan Chase and Wells Fargo & Company's quarterly results later in the day.
In addition, because retail sales data published by the U.S. Department of Commerce on Friday, March and February business inventories report.
In electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange, benchmark crude for May delivery fell 50 cents to $ 93.01 a barrel.
In New York, the euro fell to $ 1.3065 from $ 1.3112 late Thursday. The U.S. dollar fell to 99.31 yen from 99.88 yen.
 
 



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