Xinhua summary of Asia-Pacific stocks news at 1100 GMT, Sept. 27
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BEIJING -- Chinese stocks closed higher on Friday, with the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index up 0.11 percent at 2,932.17 points.
The Shenzhen Component Index closed 0.89 percent higher at 9,548.96 points.
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BANGKOK -- The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) index Friday moved up 7.01 points, or 0.43 percent to close at 1,643.76 points.
Some 14.77 billion shares worth 49.90 billion baht (about 1.64 billion U.S. dollars) changed hands.
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MUMBAI -- Indian markets closed lower on Friday.
All the sectoral indices ended in lower led by the metal, auto, pharma, energy, infra, bank and IT.
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JAKARTA -- Indonesia shares closed lower by 33.44 points, or 0.54 percent, to a level of 6,196.88 on Friday.
Some 364,774 transactions were booked, involving 15 billion copies of shares with a value of 6.9 trillion rupiah (about 487 million U.S. dollars).
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KUALA LUMPUR -- The Malaysian stock market ended lower here on Friday.
The Kuala Lumpur Composite Index (KLCI) was at 1,584.14 down 8.86 points or 0.56 percent, and the Emas was at 11,205.89 down 65.27 points or 0.58 percent.
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HANOI -- Stock market index of Vietnam's capital Hanoi, HNX-Index, closed at 104.77 points on Friday, remaining unchanged from the previous trading session.
Nearly 27.1 million shares worth 343.2 billion Vietnamese dong (14.9 million U.S. dollars) were traded at the Hanoi Stock Exchange on Friday. Specifically, foreign investors bought 287,137 shares valued at over 4 billion Vietnamese dong (174,391 U.S. dollars), and sold 172,312 shares valued at nearly 5.2 billion Vietnamese dong (224,870 U.S. dollars).
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SINGAPORE -- Singapore stocks closed almost flat on Friday, with the benchmark Straits Times Index (STI) going down 0.01 percent, or 0.18 points, to close at 3,125.63.
A total of 875.15 million shares changed hands with a turnover of 842.07 million Singapore dollars (about 609.49 million U.S. dollars). Losers outnumbered gainers by 218 to 148.
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HONG KONG -- Hong Kong stocks closed down 87.12 points, or 0.33 percent, to 25,954.81 points on Friday.
The benchmark Hang Seng Index traded between 25,840.66 and 26,017.46. Turnover totaled 53.11 billion Hong Kong dollars (about 6.77 billion U.S. dollars).
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SEOUL -- Seoul shares ended lower on Friday.
The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) sank 24.59 points, or 1.19 percent, to settle at 2,049.93. Trading volume stood at 280 million shares worth 3.4 trillion won (2.8 billion U.S. dollars).
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WELLINGTON -- New Zealand stock market's indicator, the S&P/NZX 50 index, dropped by 0.04 percent to 10,837 on Friday.
The drop was led by ikeGPS Group Limited, which went down by 4.69 percent to 0.61 NZ dollars (0.38 U.S. dollars), while SeaDragon Limited, which manufactures refined fish oils, jumped by 100 percent to 0.002 NZ dollars.
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MANILA -- Philippine shares closed 0.98 percent lower on Friday.
The benchmark Philippine Stock Exchange index decreased by 77.26 points to 7,819.22. The all-share index went down by 40.53 points, or 0.85 percent, to 4,728.81.
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TOKYO -- Tokyo stocks ended at two-week low on Friday, as investors cashed out following declines on Wall Street overnight amid concerns over an impeachment inquiry into U.S. President Donald Trump.
The 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average ended down 169.34 points, or 0.77 percent, from Thursday at 21,878.90.
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SYDNEY -- The Australian share market finished firmly higher on Friday after surging at open and maintaining gains throughout the day.
At the market close the benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index was up 38.50 points or 0.58 percent at 6,716.10, while the broader All Ordinaries index was down 38.50 points or 0.57 percent at 6,824.10. Enditem
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