Xinhua summary of Asia-Pacific stocks news at 1100 GMT, June 21
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Seoul shares ended lower on Friday.
The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) declined 27.66 points, or 1.49 percent, to close at 1,822.83. Trading volume stood at 281.9 million shares worth 4.9 trillion won (4.2 billion U.S. dollars). (South Korea-Stocks)
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WELLINGTON -- New Zealand shares fell, pushing the NZX 50 Index to a three month low, as the prospect of an end to the U.S. stimulus continued to drive volatility in equity markets.
The sharemarket closed 0.8 percent lower on Friday with the benchmark NZX-50 index dropping 35.45 points to 4363.07 and a turnover of 195 million NZ dollars (151.53 million U.S. dollars). (New Zealand-Stocks)
- - - - TOKYO -- Nikkei ended 1.66 percent higher Friday.
The 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average closed up 215.55 points from Thursday at 13,230.13. The broader Topix index of all First Section issues on the Tokyo Stock Exchange was up 7.59 points, or 0.70 percent, at 1,099.40.
The turnover was about 2,798.7 billion yen (about 28.63 billion U.S. dollars). (Japan-Stocks)
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VIENTIANE -- The Lao stock market finished on Friday down 0.16 percent against the previous trading day.
The Lao Securities Exchange composite index decreased by 2.04 points to 1,273.70. A total of 45,340 shares worth about 286 million Lao kip (about 37,000 U.S. dollars) changed hands at the stock market. (Lao-Stocks)
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MANILA -- Philippine stocks closed 2.28 percent lower Friday.
The benchmark Philippine Stock Exchange index closed 144.50 points lower to end at 6,182.17. The all-share index went down by 98.64 points, or 2.52 percent, to 3,821.01.
Trading volume reached 3.41 billion shares worth 12.97 billion pesos (297.14 million U.S. dollars). (Philippines-stocks)
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SINGAPORE -- Singapore stocks finished lower on Friday, with the benchmark Straits Times Index (STI) down 8.81 points, or 0.28 percent, to close at 3,124.45.
A total of 2.36 billion shares changed hands with turnover of 2. 03 billion Singapore dollars (1.60 billion U.S. dollars). ( Sigapore-Stocks)
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KUALA LUMPUR -- The Malaysian stock market ended lower here on Friday. The Kuala Lumpur Composite Index (KLCI)was at 1,755.85, down 6.49 points or 0.37 percent, and the Emas was at 12,172.66, down 85.58 of a point or 0.69 percent. There were 306 gainers, 512 losers and 267 counters traded unchanged. But the turnover increased to 2.05 billion shares valued at 3.79 billion ringgit Malaysia (1.18 billion U.S. dollars), compared with 1.64 billion shares valued at 2.02 billion ringgit Malaysia ( 641.26 million U.S. dollars) on Thursday. (Malaysia-Stocks)
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HANOI -- Vietnam's national stock market index, VN-Index, closed at 498.84 points on Friday, down 0.67 points or 1.13 percent, against the previous trading day's closing session.
A total of about 94.114 million shares worth 1.661 trillion Vietnamese dong (VND) (79.67 million U.S. dollars) changed hands at the southern Ho Chi Minh City Stock Exchange. Prices of 84 stocks went up, 105 stocks fell down, while 119 stocks remained unchanged. (Vietnam-Stocks)
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BANGKOK -- The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) index Friday moved down 1.69 points, or 0.12 percent to close at 1,400.50 points.
Some 10.64 billion shares worth 79.03 billion baht (about 2.24 billion U.S. dollars) changed hands. (Thailand-Stocks)
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MUMBAI -- The benchmark index of the Indian equities market closed higher on Friday with the 30-scrip sensitive index of the Bombay Stock Exchange, Sensex, closing at 18,774.24 points, 54.85 points or 0.29 percent up from the previous close of 18,719.29 points.
The Sensex had a turnover of 6.42 billion rupees (about 108.73 million U.S. dollars). (India-stocks)
- - - - HONG KONG -- Hong Kong stocks fell 119.56 points, or 0.59 percent, to close at 20,263.31 points on Friday.
The benchmark Hang Seng Index traded between 19,969.98 and 20, 383.54. Turnover totaled 97.17 billion HK dollars (about 12.52 billion U.S. dollars). (1 U.S. dollar = 7.761 HK dollars) (Hong Kong-Stocks)
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HONG KONG -- Taiwan's share prices closed 1.33 percent lower on Friday with the weighted index falling 105.6 points to close at 7, 793.31, according to news reaching here from Taipei.
The local bourse fluctuated between 7,739.09 and 7,815.79 during the day's trading. Turnover totaled 119.11 billion new Taiwan dollars (about 3.97 billion U.S. dollars) during the trading session. (Taiwan-Stocks)
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EIJING -- Chinese shares closed lower on Friday as the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index lost 0.52 percent,or 10.93 points, to end at 2,073.10.
The Shenzhen Component Index shrank 0.14 percent, or 11.44 points, to 8,136.05. (Shanghai-Stocks)
- - - - BEIJING -- The Hushen 300 Index reflecting the performance of China's Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges closed at 2,317.39 points on Friday, down 4.07 points, or 0.18 percent.
About one-fifth of the total stocks listed on the two markets are chosen as samples of the Hushen 300 Index, accounting for 60 percent of the market value in China's stock market. (Hushen- Stocks) Endi
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