The Nikkei 225 Future is trading at 22,763.00 up with +0.90% percent or +203.00 point .The NSE Nifty Future is trading at 11,609.20 with a loss of -0.12% percent or -14.30 point. The Hang Seng Future is trading at 27,894.00 up with +0.90% percent or +249.00 point.
TODAY’S FACTORS AND EVENTS
Asia’s main stock markets rallied once again on Tuesday, taking the lead from Wall Street after the S&P 500 and Nasdaq hit record closing highs.
Markets opened strongly after the US and Mexico agreed to revamp Nafta, the North American Free Trade Agreement, in what Donald Trump called a “really good deal” for both countries.
But some of those gains were pared back by the close.
Hong Kong’s Hang Seng clocked the biggest rise of the day, with 0.2% increase at 28,313.04.
It was a different story on the Chinese mainland where the Shanghai Composite closed down 0.1% at 2,777.98.
WORLD MARKETS
For the day the Dow is trading at 25,964.82 with a loss of -0.085% percent or -22.10 point. The S&P 500 is trading at 2,901.52 up with +0.013% percent or +0.39 point. The Nasdaq Composite is trading at 8,109.548,109.54 up with +0.26% percent or +21.17 point.
In other parts of world, Japan’s Nikkei 225 is trading at 22,696.90 with a loss of -0.046%percent or -10.48 point. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng is trading at 27,963.82 up with +0.91% percent or +251.28 point. China’s Shanghai Composite is trading at 2,750.58 up with +2,750.58 percent or +29.85 point. India’s BSE Sensex is trading at 38,372.36 up with +0.16% percent or +59.84 point at 12:15 PM.