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Asian shares shrug off Wall Street blues
On Monday, Asian stocks inched up, shrugging off Wall Street's uninspiring performance, while the British pound was mostly intact after in London a van unexpectedly rammed into pedestrians even as financial markets braced for the beginning of Brexit negotiations.
Outside Japan MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific stocks tacked on 0.5%.
Japan's Nikkei N225 managed to acquire 0.6%.
As for Australian shares AXJO, they gained 0.5%, South Korea's KOSPI surged 0.6%.
Chinese shares CSI300 tacked on 0.55%, following data that showed that home prices added 10.4% in May from last year, though dipping from April's 10.7% surge.
In Hong Kong the Hang Seng index grew 0.85%.
On Friday, Wall Street concluded mixed, with energy names compensating dips in consumer stocks that turned to be clobbered by Amazon’s $13.7 billion deal to purchase upscale grocer Whole Foods Market.
The S&P 500 index stood still, the Dow Jones Industrial Average concluded up 0.1% and the Nasdaq went down 0.2%.
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