Selling pressure accelerated towards the midday break on April 8, sending all key Asian markets down with Hong Kong falling the most but at Bursa, KL Kepong and Axiata help reduced the impact of the weaker sentiment.
At 12.30pm, the KL Composite Index fell 6.23 points or 0.68% to 913.61. Turnover was 343.48 million shares valued at RM463.42 million. Declining counter beat advancers 314 to 83 while 146 stocks were flat.
Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index fell 4.1% to 14,324.75, Singapore’s Straits Times Index slid 2.1% to 1,764.94 while Japan’s Nikkei 225 gave up 2.79% to 8,586.11 and Shanghai’s Composite Index lost 2.01% to 2,390.09.
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