Lola Evans
11 Nov 2019, 16:17 GMT+10
SYDNEY, Australia - Stocks in Asia spent the day sliding on Monday as confused investors tried to make sense of the Trump administration's intentions in relation to its trade dispute with China.
President Donald Trump on Friday denied reports earlier in the day by Chinese officials, and confirmed by U.S. trade officials, that agreement had been reached on deferring some planned tariffs and rolling back others.
"They'd like to have a rollback," the president said. "I haven't agreed to anything. China would like to get somewhat of a rollback, not a complete rollback because they know I won't do it."
Stocks were sold off across the board in China, Japan and Hong Kong. There was particular weakness in the Hong Kong market due to the ongoing protests and news that a protester had been shot in the chest by a police officer.
Only the Australian market finished in the black.
At the close of trading the Nikkei 225 in Japan was down 49.50 points or 0.21% at 23,342.37.
The Australian All Ordinaries rose 43.80 points or 0.64% to 6,8770.00
China's Shanghai Composite lost 54.21 points or 1.83% to 2,909.97.
Worst of all, Hong Kong's Hang Seng dived 724.59 points or 2.62% to 26,926.55..
The U.S. dollar remained strong in the Asian session. The euro was flirting with the 3-week low of 1.1017 it touched on Friday. It last traded around the Sydney close at 1.1024.
The British pound was out of favour at 1.2796. The Japanese yen was changing hands at 109.01, while the Swiss franc dipped to 0.9966.
The Canadian dollar sank to 1.3229. The Australian dollar had little support at 0.6855. The New Zealand dollar dropped to 0;.6347.
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