SINGAPORE — Shares in Asia-Pacific rose in Friday morning trade following gains overnight on Wall Street. Investors will also be looking ahead to the release of U.S. jobs data for May.
In Japan, the Nikkei 225 gained 0.96% as shares of Fast Retailing soared close to 6%. The Topix index rose 0.12%.
The Kospi in South Korea edged 0.26% higher, while Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 climbed 0.72%.
MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan traded 0.46% higher.
“It is premature, if not incorrect, to suggest that the bearish sentiment in markets may have peaked. We have argued, in our daily and ad-hoc publications, that bouts of optimism in a bear market are par for the course,” Lavanya Venkateswaran, an economist at Mizuho Bank, wrote in a Friday note.
Markets in mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan are closed on Friday for a holiday.
Overnight on Wall Street, the three major indexes stateside snapped two-day losing streaks. The S&P 500 jumped 1.84% to 4,176.82. The Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 435.05 points, or 1.33%, to 33,248.28. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite surged 2.69% to 12,316.90.
U.S. jobs data for May is set to be out at 8:30 p.m. HK/SIN on Friday. Economists surveyed by Dow Jones see 328,000 jobs added in May, a 100,000 decline from April.
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