Cailianshe (Shanghai Editor Zhou Ling) reported that on Wednesday, the Asia-Pacific stock market rose and fell. As of press time, the MSCI Asia-Pacific Index (except Japan) rose 0.21%, the 10-year U.S. Treasury yield rose 2 basis points to 1.322% during the day, and the three maj

Cailianshe (Shanghai Editor Zhou Ling) reported that , this Wednesday, the Asia-Pacific stock market rose and fell. As of press time, the MSCI Asia-Pacific Index (except Japan) rose 0.21%, the 10-year US bond yield rose 2 basis points to 1.322% during the day, and the three major stock index futures of US stock all rose slightly.

The China Manufacturing PMI in August, announced on Wednesday (September 1), fell by 1.1 percentage points to 49.2, and fell into the contraction range for the first time since May 2020. The trend of is consistent with the China Bureau of Statistics manufacturing PMI: the August manufacturing PMI released by Bureau of Statistics recorded 50.1, down 0.3 percentage points from July, slightly higher than the boom and bust line, the lowest since March 2020.

Affected by factors such as the epidemic and flood situation, China's manufacturing supply and demand declined in August. Tuan Huynh of Deutsche Bank International Private Bank said, "We have seen some weakness in the past few weeks and months, but overall, I think China is still moving forward and moving in the right direction."

Asian market performance

Hong Kong stocks opened low and closed high on Wednesday. As of press time, Hang Seng Index was 25993 points, up 0.44%. Most sectors such as domestic insurance stocks, bank stocks, education stocks, game stocks, domestic real estate stocks, , rose.

Hang Seng Index Company announced on August 31 that Hang Seng Shanghai and Shenzhen Hong Kong Z Generation Index will join Kuaishou, Bilibili, Baidu , and Ctrip Group; excluding Yuyuan Industrial , Tongcheng Elong , Bosideng and Kunlun Wanwei . The changes will take effect on Monday, September 6, 2021.

Nikkei 225 index rose 1.29%, closing at 28451.02 points, rising for three consecutive days, hitting a new high since July 15.

KOSPI index rose 0.24%, closing at 3207.02 points, rising for four consecutive days, the highest point since August 12.

Australia SP/ASX200 index fell 0.1% to close at 7527.10 points. Consumer and metal mining stocks ranked among the top in the declines, while gold and energy stocks ranked among the top in the rises.

A shares , today the two markets have significantly differentiated, and sectors have ushered in high-low switching. Stocks in high-level and high-prosperity tracks such as lithium batteries and photovoltaics have plummeted, and low-level big finance, real estate and home furnishings, machinery infrastructure and other blue-chip stocks have risen sharply. The stocks in the two markets rose and fell half of each, but the trading volume was active, with a turnover of 1.7 trillion yuan, setting a new high this year. Among them, the trading volume of Shanghai Composite Index exceeded 800 billion yuan, setting a new high since July 24, 2015. As of the close, the Shanghai Composite Index rose 0.65% to close at 3567 points; the Shenzhen Component Index fell 0.1% to close at 14314 points; the ChiNext Index fell 0.85% to close at 3186 points.

Asian time period news

[India: Due to chip shortage, Maruti Suzuki will cut production by 60% in September] According to media reports, due to the shortage of semiconductor supply, Maruti Suzuki (MSIL) will reduce production by 60% in September 2021, and the company has implemented production cuts for the second consecutive month. Total output in August is expected to be lower than in July as the Gujarat factory announced a partial shutdown for several days.

[ BMW acquisition of FAW Auto Group's part of the asset plan was approved by creditors] According to media reports, BMW's acquisition of FAW Auto Group's FAW Auto Group's voting was approved by creditors. In response, the restructuring manager of FAW Group said he would not comment.

[Japan Sumitomo Chemical will build a factory in South Korea to produce photoresist ] Sumitomo Chemical announced on the 31st that it will produce photosensitive materials (photoresist) for cutting-edge semiconductor production in South Korea. Sumitomo Chemical will invest tens of billions of yen to build a new factory. The new factory will start construction in September. The photoresist produced is suitable for ArF (argon fluoride) that forms fine circuits.

[ Former Executive Director of the Bank of Japan : Fed's debt reduction is unlikely to change the Bank of Japan's policy stance] Momma, former executive director of the Bank of Japan, recently said that changes in Japan's political situation ( Suga Yoshihide's monetary policy stance and party leader election) or the Federal Reserve's debt reduction is unlikely to change the Bank of Japan's loose monetary policy stance.

[The annual increase in Australian housing prices reached a new high since 1989 Sydney html increased by more than 20% in four years] According to data released by real estate data analysis agency CoreLogic, in the year ended August this year, the annual increase in Australian housing prices was 22.1%, a record high since 1989. Data also showed that the monthly increase of housing prices across Australia in August was 1.5%, which weakened, but the annual increase still reached 3.6 times the average increase in 30 years.

[Institution: Indian smartphone market will hit a new shipment high in 2021] According to Counterpoint Research's quarterly outlook for the Indian mobile phone market, India's smartphone shipments will hit a record high of 173 million units in 2021, a year-on-year increase of 14%. Smartphone shipments are expected to exceed 100 million units in the second half of 2021. After India lifted restrictions on the epidemic in June, market demand has been strong, and consumption growth momentum is expected to continue from August to November.

[The number of confirmed cases of new coronavirus pneumonia in the United States exceeded 210,000 in the United States] According to real-time statistics from Worldometer, as of around 6:30 Beijing time on September 1, the United States has accumulated 4,0056,817 confirmed cases of new coronavirus pneumonia and 657,531 deaths. Compared with the data at 6:30 on the previous day, the United States added 212,627 new confirmed cases and 1,969 new deaths.

[ WHO : The new coronavirus C.1.2 mutant strain does not accelerate the spread] On August 31 local time, WHO spokesman Margaret Harris said that the WHO has contacted South African research scholars to monitor and evaluate the first variant of the new coronavirus C.1.2. At present, the mutant strain has not accelerated the spread and has not been listed as a "mutant strain to pay attention to" by the WHO. Previously, the South African National Institute of Infectious Diseases said it is closely monitoring the new variant of the new coronavirus named "C.1.2". The variant strain contains multiple mutations, and researchers suspect that it may evade "attack" from some of the immune system.

[India's first fiscal quarter GDP rose by 20.1%, setting a record high] Data released by India on Tuesday showed that the country's GDP increased by 20.1% from April to June in the first fiscal quarter of 2021, that is, from April to June, the country's GDP increased by 20.1% compared with the same period last year, setting the highest value since India's statistics were available in 1996. However, it is mainly based on the low base in the same period last year. At the same time, Nayal, chief economist at ICRA, a local rating agency in India, believes that although the data is impressive, compared with the data from January to March 2020 before the outbreak, the gross added value (GVA) and GDP in the quarter both fell by nearly 10%, "this reflects the actual dilemma of economic entities in informal sectors and contact-intensive industries."

Foreign exchange market performance

USD up 0.25% against the Japanese yen during the day to 110.29.

Crude oil market performance

WTI crude oil rose 1.05% in the day to US$69.22 per barrel.

precious metals market performance

gold futures html fell 0.04% in 4 days to $1,817.35 per ounce.

European and American periods need to pay attention to:

1, Eurozone August Markit Manufacturing PMI final value

2, Eurozone July unemployment rate (%)

3, South Africa's annual gold output rate (%) (9/1-9/8)

4, US ADP employment in August (1,000)

5, US Markit Manufacturing PMI final value

6, US August ISM Manufacturing PMI

7, US EIA crude oil inventories changes in the week ending August 27 (1,000 barrels)

8, OPEC and non-OPEC oil-producing countries held their 20th ministerial meeting.