The msci asia-pacific shares the most widely used index MIAPJ0000PUS outside Japan fell 0.1%, finished Friday in the 17th - 1/2 - month high.
Australia AXJO stock market up 0.1%, while South Korea KS11 stock market fell 0.6%, after the opening almost flat.
The bank of Japan's policy meeting, Japan is the focus of the Tokyo's nikkei nikkei index rose 0.3% after the opening, fell 1.1%. Last Friday, the nikkei index rose 2.9%, for 22 months after the largest one-day increase, the yen continues to weaken the orbit, posted for 10 weeks rise, since 1987, the longest duration.. T
As early as Monday, the dollar touched a new two and a half years high 90.25 yen, last Friday, the euro dollars up to high close to the peak 120.27 yen, since May 2011 120.73 hit.
The bank of Japan began a two-day policy meeting last week is under increasing political pressure, the pursuit of more bold measures over deflation, from a member of any quota promise to buy assets, up to 2% inflation target guess is simply to improve their assets to buy plan.
According to figures released on Friday, and the currency speculator slightly reduced their bets against the yen, on January 15, week, they are still most for negative currency.
"We expect further easing doors may open the bank of Japan's policy, regardless of the outcome of the meeting, whether it is clear, the bank of Japan or implicitly by the government's plan to nominate the dove replace the governor and deputy governors," Barclays Capital (Barclays Capital, said in a report to the client.
In Asia the stability of the stock market performance rise in global stock markets late last week, the positive the United States and China data and sign Washington, can avoid financial crisis is emotional.
Republicans say, and the house of representatives will consider a bill, in order to improve the debt ceiling, enough for 3 months, in order to make the country to pay its bills. This strategy will buy, the democratic-controlled senate passed a budget plan, the federal deficit narrowing.
"Market uncertainty, the United States financial support, the risk assets in the end of the last week in negotiations again appear to drop considerably, Barclays Capital (Barclays Capital) said:" in a separate study report.
At closing, the dow Jones industrial average index and the standard &poor's 500 index. SPX Friday at the end of the quarter earnings season off to a good start in the 5 years of high. Monday for Martin Luther King day holiday, the American market closed.
Risk preference of RETURNING
EPFR Global said last Friday, EPFR Global track emerging market bond funds in the second week of January in fifty ZhouXinGao, because investors see some value in the high-risk fixed income asset class. The emerging market stock funds is better than the sixth developed market stock funds in the past seven weeks, diversified global emerging market stock funds and funds to China's favor.
Last year, when some Asian stock market rise, many large hedge funds failed to win over the benchmark return, but more agile, small to medium scale of fund performance better.
Oil prices last Friday in supply disruptions concerns enhanced islamic militants attacks and hijacked the hostages in Algerian a natural gas treatment plant, the members of the organization of the petroleum exporting countries.



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