Asia Pacific Market: Stocks fall as Fed downscale bond purchas...

The MSCI Asia Pacific Index slides 0.3% to 143.91,

Asian stocks rose on Wednesday following a positive lead from Wall Street, with Japan Must Read MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan .MIAPJ0000PUS rose 0.1 percent, reversing some of Tuesday's 0.4 percent decline. The South ...

7:30am BST * Dollar index firmer, but down from near 3-year high * MSCI Asia Pacific ex-Japan slips 0.2 percent * Nikkei up slightly, hits 5-1/2-year high By Masayuki Kitano and Vidya Ranganathan SINGAPORE, May 21 (Reuters) - The U.S. dollar inched ...

* Dollar index up from previous day's lows * San Francisco Fed's Williams says Fed may end QE this year * MSCI Asia Pacific ex-Japan steady, Japan's Nikkei slips By Masayuki Kitano SINGAPORE, May 17 (Reuters) - Japanese shares slipped and Asian ...

Taipei, May 16 (CNA) MSCI Inc., a global index provider, has cut Taiwan's weighting in its Asia-Pacific index (excluding Japan) and in its emerging markets index after a semi-annual index review. In a statement released overnight, MSCI said it has ...

May 22 (Reuters) - GLOBAL MARKETS ROUNDUP * Nifty futures on the Singapore Exchange are 0.35 percent up and the MSCI-Asia Pacific index excluding Japan is 0.1 percent higher. * Asian stocks rose on Wednesday following a positive lead from Wall ...

BANGKOK, May 17 (Reuters) - Thai shares gained on Friday, led by gains in Shin Corp and Minor International that will be added to the MSCI index, but Singapore retreated as Singapore Airlines fell after posting The Thai SET index ended up 0.62 ...

May 20 (Bloomberg) -- Asian stocks rose the first time in three days, with the regional gauge heading for the highest close since June 2008, after U.S. consumer sentiment topped estimates and Tokyo Electric Power Co. led Japanese utilities higher.

May 21 (Bloomberg) -- Asia's regional benchmark stock index swung between gains and losses as Australian banks declined and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. sold a $1.1 billion stake in Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd., offsetting a surge in ...