SINGAPORE — Stocks in Asia-Pacific fell in Friday trade, with Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index leading losses among the region’s major markets.
As of its final hour of trading, the Hang Seng index fell 1.64%.
Shares of oil giant CNOOC in Hong Kong dropped 5.93% after index provider MSCI announced that it will delete the firm from the MSCI ACWI and MSCI China All Shares indexes.
The U.S. Department of Commerce under former U.S. President Donald Trump announced last week that it had added CNOOC to a list which essentially restricts those firms from receiving specific goods made in the U.S.
Mainland Chinese stocks closed mixed, with the Shanghai composite down 0.4% to 3,606.75 while the Shenzhen component rose 0.697% to 15,628.73.
In Japan, the Nikkei 225 slipped 0.44% to close at 28,631.45 while the Topix index shed 0.21% to finish its trading day at 1,856.64. South Korea’s Kospi declined 0.64% to close at 3,140.63.
Over in Australia, the S&P/ASX 200 dipped 0.34% on the day to 6,800.40.
MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan fell 0.86%.
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Overnight on Wall Street, the Nasdaq Composite advanced 0.6% to close at a new high of 13,530.91 while the S&P 500 gained less than 0.1% to finish its trading day at 3,853.07, eking out another fresh high. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, on the other hand, shed 12.37 points to close at 31,176.01.
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The U.S. dollar index, which tracks the greenback against a basket of its peers, was at 90.219 following a earlier levels above 90.4.
The Japanese yen traded at 103.65 per dollar, stronger than levels above 103.7 against the greenback seen earlier this week. The Australian dollar changed hands at $0.7733, having risen from levels below $0.77 seen earlier in the trading week.
Oil prices declined in the afternoon of Asia trading hours, with international benchmark Brent crude futures down 0.94% to $55.57 per barrel. U.S. crude futures slipped 1.11% to $52.59 per barrel.
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