Tokyo (Nikkei Average NIK, +1.22% ) up 1.3%
Hong Kong (Hang Seng Index HSI, -0.80% ) down 0.8%
Shanghai (Shanghai Composite Index SHCOMP, -1.88% ) down 1.9% (at break)
Sydney (S&P/ASX 200 XJO, +0.76% ) up 0.8%
Seoul (Kospi SEU, +0.45% ) up 0.4%
Mumbai (Sensex 1, +0.37% ) up 0.6%
Taipei (Taiex Y9999, +0.00% ) flat
Asian share markets were mostly firmer on Tuesday and the euro clung to rare gains, relieved that European equities had weathered Greece's election outcome without much disruption.
Bad weather in the United States curbed activity on Wall Street in a busy week for earnings, while investors had reason for caution as the Federal Reserve holds its first policy meeting of the year.
Japan's Nikkei gained 1.4 per cent, while Australia's main index added 0.5 per cent. Moves were mostly modest and MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan was flat on the day.
China went its own way and the Shanghai index slipped 0.5 per cent.
NOW SGX STOCKS LOT SIZE CHANGED
SGX is reducing the standard board lot size from 1,000 units to 100 units in January 2015. The reduction will apply to ordinary shares (including shares traded on GlobalQuote), real estate investment trusts, business trusts, company warrants, structured warrants and extended settlement contracts. Existing board lot sizes of 100 or less units will remain unchanged. The board lot sizes for existing temporary trading counters (e.g. rights shares) will also remain unchanged.
The board lot sizes for exchange traded funds (except for SPDR STI ETF and ABF SG Bond Fund for which the board lot size will be reduced to 100 units), American Depositary Receipts and fixed income instruments, including Singapore Government Securities and preference shares will also remain unchanged.
