Asia-Pacific stocks mixed

FXstreet.com (Barcelona) - Following yet another push higher in US equity markets with SP500 adding +1.54% gains in the week so far, +0.74% for Tuesday alone, local share markets in the Asia-Pacific show mixed results. Nikkei index is back above the key 13k points mark, up +1.73% for the day, helped on Yen weakness and positive exports data in Japan, while Shanghai Composite index is down -1.06% for the day so far.

Australian ASX is higher by +0.4% on the back of better than expected leading indexes figures in Australia, while Korean Kospi is down -0.81%, and Hong-Kong's Hang Seng also down -0.32%, all of them ahead of later on key FOMC statement in the US.