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Asian shares higher on strong lead from Wall Street | Asian shares higher on strong lead from Wall Street |
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Asian shares headed higher on Wednesday, getting a strong lead from Wall Street where rising oil prices led to a rebound in the market. | Asian shares headed higher on Wednesday, getting a strong lead from Wall Street where rising oil prices led to a rebound in the market. |
The S&P 500 and the Dow Jones indexes both gained over 1% as oil prices rallied overnight to climb by around 3% after Monday's declines. | The S&P 500 and the Dow Jones indexes both gained over 1% as oil prices rallied overnight to climb by around 3% after Monday's declines. |
Encouraging economic data such as housing and consumer confidence in the US also boosted investor sentiment. | Encouraging economic data such as housing and consumer confidence in the US also boosted investor sentiment. |
Japan's Nikkei was up 0.6% to 19,097.14 in the year's final trading day. | |
Japanese markets will be closed on Thursday for a public holiday. | Japanese markets will be closed on Thursday for a public holiday. |
Rest of Asia | |
In Australia, the benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index was up 0.7% to 5,304.20, leading the gains in the region. | |
But commodity shares still weighed on the market with shares of mining giants BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto down 0.9% and 0.4% respectively. | |
Chinese shares were barely unchanged with the Shanghai Composite trading flat at 3,565.77, while Hong Kong's Hang Seng index was up 0.1% to 22,016.92. | |
South Korea's Kospi index was higher by 0.1% to 1,967.60 points. | |
Investors ignored data that showed industrial production saw its worst decline in 10 months in November on slumping global demand for exports. | Investors ignored data that showed industrial production saw its worst decline in 10 months in November on slumping global demand for exports. |
Factory output fell a seasonally adjusted 2.1% from a month earlier, according to Statistics Korea. | Factory output fell a seasonally adjusted 2.1% from a month earlier, according to Statistics Korea. |