SHANGHAI / TOKYO (Dow Jones) – No uniform trend emerged on the stock exchanges in East Asia and Australia on Monday. The markets continued to move in the area of tension between the burden of rising yields and the hope of an economic recovery thanks to government stimuli and more relaxed worldwide Monetary policy. 
The focus was also on the vaccination campaigns and the falling number of new infections.
On the Japanese market, the Nikkei-225 rose 0.5 percent to 30,156 points. According to media reports, vaccination of older people is scheduled to start in early April, albeit at a slower pace because Pfizer production is delayed.
The market in Shanghai had to cope with a more pronounced loss of 1.4 percent, depressed by tourism stocks. China Tourism Group Duty Free whizzed 8.9 percent down. Participants cited the fact that Beijing tightened its monetary policy after the New Year celebrations as a negative factor. KGI Securities expects this to limit price gains in the Shanghai and Hong Kong markets in the near future. It was recently around 0.6 percent in the red.
On the Korean market, the index turned opening gains even more clearly into the red.
The leading index was initially driven by auto and technology stocks, encouraged by preliminary trade data, which showed a jump in export volume of 17 percent year-on-year for the first twenty days in February.
The share of the botox manufacturer Daewoong Pharmaceutical rose 13 percent after the US partner settled a legal dispute with competitors.
Commodity stocks rise with commodity prices
Lotte Chemical could prove to be profiting from supply chain problems in Texas because of the cold weather, Meritz Securities experts said. Higher prices for chemical products can be expected.
The share gained 2.5 percent.
The share of the mobile phone manufacturer Xiaomi was last 5 percent in the red after strong premiums on Friday.
The fantasy about an automobile project of the company has evaporated with a denial.
The commodities rally continued and mainly drove copper values.
The price of copper rose above $ 9,000 per metric ton for the first time since 2011. Jiangxi Copper defended 16 percent. In Sydney, Rio Tinto and BHP gained over 3 percent.
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Index (stock exchange) last +/-%% YTD end
S&P/ASX 200 (Sydney) 6.780,90 -0,19% +2,94% 06:00
Nikkei-225 (Tokio) 30.156,03 + 0,46% + 9,38% 07:00
Kospi (Seoul) 3.079,75 -0,90% +7,18% 07:00
Shanghai Comp. 3,642.44 -1.45% + 4.88% 08:00
Hang-Seng (Hongk.) 30,457.49 -0.61% + 12.57% 09:00
Taiex (Taiwan) 16.410,16 +0,42% +11,39% 06:30
Straits-Times (Sing.) 2.889,82 +0,32% +1,30% 10:00
KLCI (Malaysia) 1.577.25 -0.48% -2.60% 10:00
BSE (Mumbai) 50.134,15 -1,48% + 4,73% 11:00
Forex last +/-% 00:00 Thu, 8:21% YTD
EUR/USD 1,2106 -0,1% 1,2123 1,2104 -0,9%
EUR/JPY 128,02 +0,1% 127,89 127,84 +1,5%
EUR/GBP 0,8657 +0,1% 0,8649 0,8659 -3,1%
GBP/USD 1,3983 -0,2% 1,4015 1,3978 +2,3%
USD/JPY 105,75 +0,2% 105,51 105,62 +2,4%
USD/KRW 1113,12 +0,7% 1105,00 1106,71 +2,5%
USD/CNY 6,4679 +0,2% 6,4577 6,4641 -0,9%
USD / CNH 6,4698 + 0.3% 6,4509 6.4539 -0.5%
USD/HKD 7,7534 +0,0% 7,7533 7,7530 +0,0%
AUD/USD 0,7859 -0,2% 0,7871 0,7795 +2,0%
NZD / USD 0.7290 -0.1% 0.7296 0.7237 + 1.5%
Bitcoin
BTC / USD 56,355.00 -1.8% 57,390.50 51,716.50 + 94.0%
ROHOEL zuletzt VT-Settl. +/- % +/- USD % YTD
WTI/Nymex 59,96 59,24 +1,2% 0,72 +23,3%
Brent/ICE 63,55 62,91 +1,0% 0,64 +22,9%
METALS last previous day +/-% +/- USD% YTD
Gold (Spot) 1.791,40 1.784,00 +0,4% +7,40 -5,6%
Silver (spot) 27.40 27.28 + 0.5% +0.13 + 3.8%
Platinum (Spot) 1.281.15 1.279.03 + 0.2% + 2.13 + 19.7%
Kupfer-Future 4,15 4,07 +1,9% +0,08 +17,9%
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(END) Dow Jones Newswires
February 22, 2021 02:50 ET (07:50 GMT)
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