Asian markets ended mostly higher. So, Japan’s Nikkei-225 index climbed 1.1 per cent; Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index edged up 0.2 per cent; South Korea’s Kospi index advanced 1.2 per cent and Singapore’s Straits Times index rose 0.4 per cent, But China’s Shanghai Composite index shed 0.2 per cent.
In Europe, London’s FTSE-100 had traded marginally lower but France’s CAC-40 had risen 0.5 per cent and Germany’s DAX had inched up 0.3 per cent, in intra-day trade.
Back home, gold rose 25 rupees, to 55,900 rupees per 10 grams in Delhi.
