SHANGHAI/NEW YORK (Reuters) – Asian shares increased on Friday as financiers focused on talks in between U.S. and Chinese trade officials and solid corporate incomes instead of the looming release of information expected to show the worst U.S. unemployment rate in more than 70 years.
FILE IMAGE: A board reveals stock details at a brokerage office in Beijing, China January 2,2020 REUTERS/Jason Lee
Having actually opened higher list below gains on Wall Street overnight, Asian markets had an additional boost late in the morning on Chinese state media reports that U.S. and Chinese trade agents had held a telephone call and pledged to comply on carrying out the nations’ Stage 1 trade deal.
The news lifted U.S. stock futures, pushing E-minis for the S&P 500 up 1.06%to 2,9105.
MSCI’s broadest gauge of Asian share indexes outside Japan was 1.1%higher and Japan’s Nikkei included 1.78%.
Australian shares were 0.76%higher. China’s blue-chip CSI300 index acquired 0.86%.
While rising equity markets on Friday were accompanied by a small uptick in U.S. Treasury yields, bond markets rem