Tiny gains in Tokyo, mixed results in Chinese stocks

FXstreet.com (Chicago) – Japan closed with tiny gains up 0.08% while in China the Hang Seng registers 0.75% gains and the Shanghai Composite is down 0.50% ahead of BoJ’s interest rate decision.

President Obama got the Senate’s support after successful meetings with key Republicans over the weekend implying a Syrian attack will be taking place rather soon. Wall Street had closed with gains with the Dow up 0.65% the Nasdaq up 1.01% and the S&P 500 higher 0.81%. The first economy in the world is perceived as showing “moderate” improvements (post Beige book results from the Fed), driving the second economy in the world, Japan, to peaks.

Meanwhile, the Australia ASX All Ordinaries is down 0.61% post trade balance data while the Mumbai Sensex records advancements at 1.83% along the Taiwan TSEC 50 Index with 0.47% gains so far. The world awaits the BoJ’s interest rate decision followed by the BoJ monetary policy press conference at 3:00 GMT.

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