By Marketwatch and Associated Press
Reuters
Tencent shares fell only slightly in Hong Kong on Friday despite a massive drop in quarterly profit.
Asian markets were mixed in early trading Friday, as investors pondered the effects of the U.S. Federal Reserve’s more dovish stance.
Japan’s Nikkei
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+0.51%
fell 0.2% and Hong Kong’s Hang Seng
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+2.70%
slipped 0.4%. The Shanghai Composite
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+1.95%
dropped 0.5% while South Korea’s Kospi
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+1.29%
decline 0.2%. Benchmark indexes in Taiwan , Singapore
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+0.68%
and Indonesia
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+0.28%
were up slight. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200
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+0.82%
was the region’s biggest gainer, up 0.6%.
Among individual stocks, Fast Retailing
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+0.24%
and Sony
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-0.13%
fell in Tokyo trading, while SoftBank Group
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+2.12%
advanced. Property and casino stocks rose in Hong Kong while PetroChina
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+2.94%
and Sunny Optical
/zigman2/quotes/206687505/delayed HK:2382
+2.40%
were among the biggest decliners. Tencent
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+3.58%
fell only slightly after reporting a worst-ever 32% drop in quarterly profit. Samsung
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+0.48%
and SK Hynix
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+1.73%
rose in South Korea. Fortescue Metals
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+5.69%
and Beach Energy
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-0.31%
jumped in Australia.
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JP
: Nikkei
Volume: 0.00
March 3, 2021 3:15p
/zigman2/quotes/210598030/delayed
HK
: Hong Kong Exchange
Volume: 3.23M
March 3, 2021 4:08p
/zigman2/quotes/210598127/delayed
CN
: China: Shanghai
Volume: 34.77B
March 3, 2021 3:01p
/zigman2/quotes/210598069/delayed
KR
: Korea Exchange
Volume: 2.21M
March 3, 2021 3:30p
/zigman2/quotes/210597985/delayed
SG
: Singapore: SGX
Volume: 0.00
March 3, 2021 4:47p
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ID
: Indonesia Stock Exchange
Volume: 0.00
March 3, 2021 3:00p
/zigman2/quotes/210598100/delayed
AU
: S&P ASX
Volume: 591,222
March 3, 2021 5:58p
/zigman2/quotes/200663563/delayed
JP
: Japan: Tokyo
Volume: 546,500
March 3, 2021 3:00p
Market Cap
¥11013.17 billion
/zigman2/quotes/201361720/delayed
JP
: Japan: Tokyo
¥
11,330.00
-15.00
-0.13%
Volume: 3.45M
March 3, 2021 3:00p
Market Cap
¥14101.01 billion
/zigman2/quotes/207303954/delayed
JP
: Japan: Tokyo
¥
10,600.00
+220.00
+2.12%
Volume: 8.92M
March 3, 2021 3:00p
Market Cap
¥18800.16 billion
/zigman2/quotes/204979431/delayed
HK
: Hong Kong
Volume: 112.71M
March 3, 2021 4:08p
Market Cap
HK$908.68 billion
Rev. per Employee
HK$5.79M
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HK
: Hong Kong
Volume: 3.63M
March 3, 2021 4:08p
Market Cap
HK$219.04 billion
Rev. per Employee
HK$2.13M
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HK
: Hong Kong
Volume: 18.29M
March 3, 2021 4:08p
Market Cap
HK$6630.61 billion
Rev. per Employee
HK$6.80M
/zigman2/quotes/209800866/delayed
KR
: S. Korea: KRX
₩
84,000.00
+400.00
+0.48%
Volume: 17.90M
March 3, 2021 3:30p
Market Cap
₩552413.27 billion
/zigman2/quotes/206420319/delayed
KR
: S. Korea: KRX
Volume: 5.66M
March 3, 2021 3:30p
Market Cap
₩96786.26 billion
/zigman2/quotes/202351558/delayed
AU
: Australia: Sydney
Volume: 11.48M
March 3, 2021 4:10p
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AU
: Australia: Sydney
Volume: 5.66M
March 3, 2021 4:10p