Asian markets rise on Thursday but China drops

FXstreet.com (Barcelona) - In general, it was a risk-on session despite Mainland China’s Shanghai Composite and Indonesia’s Jakarta Composite drops by -0.32% and -0.48%. Japan’s Nikkei Stock Average (+0.61%), South Korea’s Kospi (+0.65%), Hong Kong’s Hang Seng (+1.06%) and India’s Bombay Sensitive (+0.84%) rose on Thursday. One day ahead of the BoJ, Japan finance minister Aso praised the central bank’s action once again: “G-20 understood BoJ policy was not aimed at foreign exchange”.

Futures for the German DAX 30 (-0.08%) and the French CAC 40 (-0.07%) are signaling a lower opening ahead of UK GDP.