daytrading march 18 afternoon, page-22

Taking a look around the region's sharemarkets, and sentiment is broadly up, although Chinese stocks may be being weighed down by the news of the collapse of a large property developer:
•Nikkei up 1.1%
•Hang Seng up 0.4%
•China's Shanghai Composite index is flat
•Taiwan's TAIEX up 0.3%
•Korea's KOSPI up 0.5%
•Singapore's Straits Times index up 0.1%
•Thai market up 0.1%
•Jakarta Comp index down 0.8%
•Kiwi NZX 50 up 0.9%