Bad day for the Asian stock exchanges, which discount the bad data on Chinese foreign trade, which showed a drop in exports and imports.
However, the Tokyo stock exchange moved against the trend, closing trading fractionally higher, thanks to the weakness of the yen after the excellent data on the American labor market.
In Tokyo, the securities of major exporters did very well, allowing the Nikkei index to gain 0,36% to 17.711,93 points, while the Topix rose by 0,55% to 1.424,92 points.
Among other Asian stock exchanges, Seoul finished down 0,44%, while Taiwan lost 0,37%. The other Asian markets were mainly negative, closing trading later, with Hong Kong losing 0,44%, Shanghai 0,39%, Singapore 0,13%, Kuala Lumpur 0,05%, Bangkok 0,17 .0,42% and . In contrast, Jakarta recovers XNUMX%.
