Asian markets showed Tuesday small momentum, in the United States after the holiday, there is no clue, from Wall Street
In Japan, investors after Monday's strong rebound profits. The nikkei 225 index fell 0.1% to 11395.16. Hong Kong's hang seng index fell 0.1% to 23352.91. South Korea's Kospi index rose 0.3% to 1987.53 point. Australia's S&P/ASX 200 index rose 0.2% to 5071.60.
Some investors are still sidelined, waiting for the bank of Japan to replace the bank of Japan is bright Shirikawa bank, who left April announced the head. DBS bank in Singapore's analysts said they expected announcement former prime minister Shinzo Abe (Shinzo Abe) met in Washington, President Obama on February 22,.
Shinzo Abe was elected bold action commitment, to ignite the dying Japan's economy, is likely to be appointed person's opinion, he advocated by the program. The plan a part including 2% inflation rate, torsional twenty years of falling prices, it will hurt growth target. He also claims the weaker yen.
The Japanese stock market soared in recent weeks the yen has fallen in the expected steps, will promote the low currency.
At the same time, in China, the lunar New Year holiday in last week's retail sales rose 14.7% from the same period last year, 16.2% of the growth, slow. The Chinese government also said that food and beverage sales moderate growth.
"Moderate growth may reflect the government's drive to reduce luxury government conference and banquet, high-grade food and wine registered sales decline analysts said," citigroup research in Hong Kong.
Jewelry sales have risen sharply, because in the Chinese New Year valentine's day fall, analysts say. Listed in Hong Kong chow taifook jewelry group rose 1.2%. King clocks jewelry rose 1.1%.
In the electronic disk transactions, the New York mercantile exchange for delivery in March benchmark crude was down 19 cents to $95.67 a barrel. The New York mercantile exchange Monday this contract fell 17 cents, to $95.69.
In the currency, the euro fell to $1.3345 from $1.3358 late Monday in Asia. The fall in the dollar to 93.79 yen, from 94.05 yen.
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