Econintersect: Ten of eleven Asia/Pacific stock markets are up in Thursday morning trading (March 24, 2011). All gains are fractional except for Jakarta (+1.1%). The next best gains are in Seoul,Singapore, Sydney, Mumbai (Bombay) and Hong Kong, which are all ahead by 0.8%.Tokyo is down marginally (-0.1%). Malyasia is marginally higher (+0.03%), as is Shanghai (+.1%). This is the second day in a row that Tokyo has been the weakest far east market after a five day run that saw the Nikkei 225 index tack on more than 16%.
Source: Yahoo Finance