BEIJING -- Chinese stocks closed mixed on Friday, with the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index down 0.01 percent, at 3,365.24 points.
The Shenzhen Component Index closed 0.01 percent higher at 10,970.77 points. The ChiNext Index, which tracks China's NASDAQ-style board of growth enterprises, lost 0.27 percent to close at 1,885.27 points.
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TOKYO -- Tokyo stocks closed lower Friday as the yen's appreciation against the U.S. dollar dampened investor sentiment while ongoing concerns about tensions on the Korean Peninsular continued to weigh on the market mood.
The 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average lost 121.70 points, or 0.63 percent, from Thursday to end the day at 19,274.82.
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VIENTIANE -- The Lao stock market closed on Friday unchanged compared to the previous trading day.
The Lao Securities Exchange composite index remained at 1,030.72 points after closing. A total of 16,300 shares worth about 83 million Lao kip (over 10,050 U.S. dollars) changed hands at the stock market.
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PHNOM PENH -- Cambodia's stocks finished higher on Friday, with the Cambodia Securities Exchange Index up 1.78 points, or 0.53 percent, to close at 337.78.
A total of 8,881 shares worth 40.86 million riel (10,088 U.S. dollars) were traded.
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HONG KONG -- Hong Kong stocks closed up 145.55 points, or 0.53 percent, to 27,668.47 points on Friday.
The benchmark Hang Seng Index traded between 27,569.13 and 27,708.09. Turnover totaled 83.30 billion Hong Kong dollars (about 10.67 billion U.S. dollars).
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SEOUL -- Seoul shares ended lower on Friday.
The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) lost 2.47 points, or 0.11 percent, to settle at 2,343.72.
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HANOI -- Stock market index of Vietnam's capital Hanoi, HNX-Index, closed at 103.92 points on Friday, down 0.69 points or 0.66 percent against the previous trading session.
Over 40.536 million shares worth some 498.075 billion Vietnamese dong (some 22.2 million U.S. dollars) were traded at the Hanoi Stock Exchange on Friday, an increase of 18 percent in volume and 0.6 percent in value against the previous trading session.
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SINGAPORE -- Singapore stocks finished higher on Friday, with the benchmark Straits Times Index (STI) rising 0.5 points, or 0.02 percent, to close at 3228.56.
A total of 1.69 billion shares changed hands with a turnover of 1.17 billion Singapore dollars (about 873.53 million U.S. dollars). Gainers outnumbered losers by 232 to 208.
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KUALA LUMPUR -- The Malaysian stock market ended lower here on Friday.
The Kuala Lumpur Composite Index (KLCI) was at 1,779.90 down 3.08 points or 0.17 percent, and the Emas was at 12,689.28 down 11.37 points or 0.09 percent.
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MUMBAI -- Indian markets closed flat on a positive note Friday.
Equity benchmarks remained range-bound trade due to lack of global as well as domestic cues.
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JAKARTA -- Indonesia shares closed higher by 24.80 points, or 0.43 percent, to a level of 5,857.11 on Friday.
Some 260,296 transactions were booked, involving 15.9 billion copies of shares with a value of 8.2 trillion rupiah (about 621.3 million U.S. dollars).
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BANGKOK -- The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) index Friday moved up 2.95 points, or 0.18 percent to close at 1,635.61 points.
Some 12.18 billion shares worth 76.73 billion baht (about 2.33 billion U.S. dollars) changed hands. Enditem
