Xinhua summary of Asia-Pacific stocks news at 1100 GMT, Nov. 1
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BEIJING -- Chinese stocks closed higher on Friday, with the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index up 0.99 percent, at 2,958.20 points.
The Shenzhen Component Index closed 1.73 percent higher at 9,802.33 points.
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HANOI -- Stock market index of Vietnam's capital Hanoi, HNX-Index, closed at 105.75 points on Friday, up 0.56 points or 0.53 percent, from the previous trading session.
More than 41 million shares worth nearly 507 billion Vietnamese dong (22 million U.S. dollars) were traded at the Hanoi Stock Exchange on Friday. Specifically, foreign investors bought more than 15 million shares valued at over 147 billion Vietnamese dong (6.4 million U.S. dollars), and sold 401,800 shares valued at nearly 4.7 billion Vietnamese dong (203,700 U.S. dollars).
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MUMBAI -- Indian markets closed flat on a positive note Friday.
The benchmark S&P, BSE Sensex closed at 40,165.03, up 35.98 points, or 0.09 percent, compared to its previous close at 40,129.05.
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BANGKOK -- The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) index Friday moved down 8.97 points, or 0.56 percent, to close at 1,592.52 points.
Some 19.55 billion shares worth 48.45 billion baht (about 1.61 billion U.S. dollars) changed hands.
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HO CHI MINH CITY -- VN-Index, the stock market index of Ho Chi Minh City bourse in southern Vietnam, closed at 1,015.59 points on Friday, up 16.77 points, or 1.68 percent against the previous trading day.
On Friday, VN30-Index, the new benchmark index for the southern bourse, which tracks the 30 leading stocks by both market capitalization and liquidity, closed at 933.55 points, up 10.87 points or 1.18 percent.
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JAKARTA -- Indonesian shares closed lower by 21.12 points, or 0.34 percent, to a level of 6,207.19 on Friday.
Some 573,802 transactions were booked, involving 18.6 billion copies of shares with a value of 8.9 trillion rupiah (about 633.7 million U.S. dollars).
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SINGAPORE -- Singapore stocks closed lower on Friday, with the benchmark Straits Times Index (STI) going down 0.01 percent, or 0.45 points, to close at 3,229.43.
The STI index went up 0.68 percent, or 21.96 points, to close at 3,229.88 on Thursday.
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KUALA LUMPUR -- The Malaysian stock market ended lower here on Friday.
The Kuala Lumpur Composite Index (KLCI) was at 1,593.34 down 4.64 points or 0.29 percent, and the Emas was at 11,280.13 down 25.60 points or 0.23 percent.
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HONG KONG -- Hong Kong stocks closed up 194.04 points, or 0.72 percent, to 27,100.76 points on Friday.
The benchmark Hang Seng Index traded between 26,800.57 and 27,102.42. Turnover totaled 79.40 billion Hong Kong dollars (about 10.13 billion U.S. dollars).
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TOKYO -- Tokyo stocks closed lower Friday tracking declines on Wall Street overnight as investors became newly concerned about the future course of the global economy.
The 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average lost 76.27 points, or 0.33 percent, from Thursday to close the day at 22,850.77.
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SEOUL -- Seoul shares ended higher Friday.
The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) gained 16.72 points, or 0.80 percent, to settle at 2,100.20. Trading volume stood at 411.6 million shares worth 4.5 trillion won (3.8 billion U.S. dollars).
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SYDNEY -- The Australian share market finished higher on Friday, clawing back from a heavy start thanks to broad gains across the index.
At the market close, the benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index was up 5.70 points or 0.086 percent at 6,669.10, while the broader All Ordinaries index was up 6.20 points or 0.092 percent at 6,779.10.
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WELLINGTON -- New Zealand stock market's indicator, the S&P/NZX 50 index, dropped by 0.24 percent to 10,762 on Friday.
The drop was led by Plexure Group Limited, which helps brands create world-class customer engagement. It went down by 3.37 percent to 0.86 NZ dollars (0.55 U.S. dollars), while Metro Performance Glass Limited jumped by 6.06 percent to 0.35 NZ dollars. Enditem
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