Asia stocks edge higher, dollar up before US payrolls
Asian stocks edged up and the dollar rose to 1-1/2-month highs versus the yen on Friday ahead of the US non-farm payrolls report due later in the day.
MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan added 0.1 %, taking cues from a modest bounce in Wall Street overnight.
Japan's Nikkei climbed 1% on the back of a weaker yen and Australian stocks added 0.4 %.
Wall Street was marginally higher, underpinned by speculation the widely-anticipated labour market report on Friday would show US payrolls growth in February was far more than economist forecast.
No comments:
Post a Comment