Indeks Topix Jepang Berayun seiring Investor Mengamati Kebuntuan Utang AS

Bloomberg, (07/10) - Saham Jepang berayun antara keuntungan dan kerugian setelah jatuh terbesar sejak awal Agustus pada pekan lalu di tengah kekhawatiran tentang kebuntuan atas batas utang AS dan shutdown pemerintah. Nissan Motor Co, produsen mobil yang mendapat sekitar 80% dari penjualan di luar negeri, turun 0,9% seiring yen menguat. Yoshinoya Holdings Co, yang mengoperasikan rantai makanan cepat saji, merosot 1,4% setelah memotong perkiraan pada makanan yang lebih tinggi dan biaya listrik. Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc, bank terbesar kedua Jepang berdasarkan nilai pasar, naik 2,4% setelah mengatakan laba semester pertama mungkin melonjak. Indeks Topix turun kurang dari 0,1% ke level 1,163.38 pada pukul 09:34 di Tokyo, setelah naik sebanyak 0,2%. Mengukur penurunan sebesar 4,4% pada pekan lalu, terbesar sejak periode yang berakhir pada 9Agustus.  Indeks Nikkei 225 Stock Average naik 0,1% pada hari ini ke level 14,036.02. 'Investor yang ingin membeli pada dominan cenderung ke bawah pada saat ini , 'kata Toshiyuki Kanayama, seorang analis pasar senior di Monex Securities Inc' Di sisi lain, kekhawatiran atas default AS yang kuat dan itu akan sulit bagi saham untuk keluar.' Kontrak pada indeks  Standard & Poor 500 turun 0,5%. Mengukur kenaikan sebesar 0,7% di New York pada tanggal 4 Oktober, pemangkasan penurunan mingguannya menjadi 0,1%. shutdown Partial AS memasuki minggu keduanya, dengan batas waktu pada tanggal 17 Oktober untuk menaikkan plafon utang. Ketua DPR John Boehner mengatakan kepada anggota parlemen Republik yang tidak akan meningkatkan batas pinjaman tanpa kemasan dengan langkah-langkah lain. (izr)

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Emas Berjangka Mencatat Kerugian Ketiga Dalam Empat Sesi

MarketWatch (04/10) SAN FRANCISCO - Emas berjangka ditutup sedikit melemah pada hari Kamis untuk mencatat sesi penurunan ketiganya seiring shutdown pemerintah AS di hari ketiganya.

Emas untuk pengiriman bulan Desember turun $ 3,10, atau 0,2%, untuk menetap di posisi $ 1,317.60 per ons di divisi Comex New York Mercantile Exchange. Kontrak tersebut naik $ 34,60, atau 2,7%, untuk menetap di level $ 1,320.70 per ons pada hari Rabu, menarik dukungan terhadap emas dari nomor penggajian ADP yang mengecewakan.

Sebenarnya fokus pasar adalah berkurangnya emas "walaupun shutdown pemerintah AS dan lainnya [harga emas] bullish berita," kata Chintan Karnani, kepala analis di Insignia Consultants. "Ini sebenarnya membuat pedagang bingung. Tapi bagiku emas telah jatuh seiring pedagang percaya bahwa politisi AS bijaksana untuk memastikan bahwa langkah penutupan ini tidak akan berlangsung lama. "

Sebuah pertemuan antara Presiden Barrack Obama dan para pemimpin Kongres berakhir pada hari Rabu malam dengan tidak ada kesepakatan untuk membuka anggaran pemerintah yang baru.

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European shares edge higher, miners advance

Reuters (3/10) - European shares edged higher in early trading on Thursday after declines in the previous session, with strong economic data from China offsetting concerns about the impact of a prolonged U.S. government shutdown.

Expectations that some recent disappointing economic numbers would force the U.S. Federal Reserve to keep its policies loose for longer were also seen underpinning the market.

However, investor mood remained relatively cautious given the likely impact of the shutdown on talks to raise the U.S. debt ceiling by mid-October, with analysts saying failure to do this would push the world's biggest economy into default and hurt the pace of economic recovery.

Activity in services sector in China, the world's biggest metals consumer, expanded at the fastest pace in six months in September as demand grew.

The official purchasing managers' index (PMI) for the non-manufacturing sector rose to 55.4, the highest reading since March.

Miners were the top sectoral gainers, with the STOXX Europe 600 basic resources index gaining 0.6 percent, helping the pan-European FTSEurofirst 300 index to advance 0.3 percent to 1,250.5 points by 0705 GMT. The index fell 0.7 percent in the previous session.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/03/markets-europe-stocks-idUSL6N0HT0NA20131003

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Wall Street ends lower on worries of prolonged shutdown

(Reuters) - Wall Street retreated on Wednesday, the second day of a partial U.S. government shutdown, as political wrangling in Washington raised investor concerns that the stoppage could be prolonged.
Adding to worries, a report showed private employers added fewer-than-expected jobs in September. Investors were looking for more guidance from this data because Friday's broader, government payrolls report will be delayed if no deal on the budget is reached by then.

Losses were across the board, led by stocks in the industrial sector .SPLRCI, which fell 0.4 percent.
The shutdown fight is rapidly merging with a higher-stakes battle over the government's borrowing power that is expected to come to a head soon. The Treasury has said the United States will exhaust its borrowing authority no later than October 17.

"I wouldn't call the market's decline today a panic. But the longer this (shutdown) goes on, and the more headlines shift towards the October 17 deadline, investors are becoming more and more concerned," said Quincy Krosby, a market strategist for Newark, New Jersey-based Prudential Financial Inc.

"As impossible as it seems, investors are thinking that there might now be a possibility of a default."
The Dow Jones industrial average .DJI was down 58.56 points, or 0.39 percent, at 15,133.14. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index .SPX was down 1.13 points, or 0.07 percent, at 1,693.87. The Nasdaq Composite Index .IXIC was down 2.96 points, or 0.08 percent, at 3,815.02.

Congressional leaders and President Barack Obama planned to meet in the White House at 5:30 p.m. (2130 GMT) on Wednesday to discuss the budget impasse and raising the U.S. debt limit.

Among individual stocks, the possibility of a second offer for Blackberry Ltd (BB.TO) (BBRY.O) reversed a slide in its stock price after the struggling smartphone maker said it expected to record $400 million in pre-tax charges related to cuts announced last month. The stock ended up 0.3 percent to $78.06 after falling to a 11-month low earlier of $77.28.

Despite the recent declines, buyers have come in as the S&P approached its 50-day moving average of 1,679.99. The moving average represents a measure of the near-term trend in the market and often investors will buy in clusters at such levels.

The CBOE Volatility index .VIX, used to measure investor anxiety, rose 6.8 percent to 16.60. The index has gained more than 25 percent over the past two weeks.

Trading volume totaled about 5.3 billion shares on the New York Stock Exchange, the Nasdaq and the NYSE MKT, below the average daily closing volume of about 6.3 billion this year.

Declining stocks outnumbered advancing stocks by about 16 to 13 on the New York Stock Exchange while on the Nasdaq, decliners beat advancers by about 3 to 2. (Reporting by Angela Moon; Editing by Kenneth Barry)

source: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/02/us-markets-stocks-idUSBRE9890IQ20131002

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Asia Stocks Rise on China Services; Investors Watch U.S.

Bloomberg - Asian stocks rose, led by material and energy shares, after a gauge of China’s services industries jumped and as investors watched for progress on ending a budget impasse that has shut down the U.S. government. 

Newcrest Mining Ltd., Australia’s biggest gold producer, added 3.2 percent as material shares gained the most among the 10 industry groups on the benchmark regional index. PetroChina Co. climbed 1.6 percent in Hong Kong. Leighton Holdings Ltd., an Australian developer, slumped 9.3 percent after saying it’s unaware of any new allegations or ethics breaches in a statement responding to newspaper reports. 

The MSCI Asia Pacific Index added 0.3 percent to 139.12 as of 11:46 a.m. in Tokyo, with nine of the 10 industry groups rising. The U.S. government has been in partial shutdown for two days after lawmakers failed to agree on a federal budget. President Barack Obama summoned the top four leaders of Congress to the White House for the first high-level talks on reopening the government and raising the debt ceiling. 

Obama’s meeting with Congress leaders “is something he should’ve done weeks ago, but it is a positive development,‘‘ Matthew Sherwood, head of investment markets research in Sydney at Perpetual Investments, which manages about $25 billion, said by telephone. ‘‘Investors have been factoring the shutdown in progressively and what they haven’t factored in yet is delaying the resolution to the debt ceiling, and so my expectation is that volatility will pick up.’’

Regional Gauges

Japan’s Topix index gained 0.1 percent. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 Index rose 0.7 percent, while New Zealand’s NZX 50 Index lost 0.1 percent. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index advanced 0.8 percent as data showed China’s non-manufacturing purchasing manager’s index climbed to the highest level since March. Singapore’s Straits Times Index slipped 0.1 percent, while Taiwan’s Taiex index jumped 1.5 percent. 

Financial markets in China are closed for holidays until Oct. 8. South Korea’s market is also closed today.
The MSCI Asia Pacific Index rallied 6.4 percent in September, the biggest monthly advance since January 2012. The measure traded at 13.4 times estimated earnings as of yesterday, compared with 15.3 for the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index and 14.1 for the Stoxx Europe 600 Index, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. 

Japan’s Topix index climbed 37 percent this year through yesterday, the most among developed markets, amid optimism Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and the Bank of Japan can lead the country out of deflation through unprecedented monetary easing. 

Futures on the S&P 500 fell 0.3 percent today after the measure slipped 0.1 percent yesterday.

source: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-03/asian-stocks-rise-as-investors-watch-u-s-shutdown-talks.html

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PT.Kontak Perkasa Futures, Updated at: 10:50 AM

Aksi profit taking masih membayangi emas di pasar Asia

KONTAK PERKASA (03/10) - Harga emas diperdagangkan lebih rendah selama sesi Asia hari Kamis pada aksi profit taking setelah logam kuning melonjak pada hari Rabu, karena terkait berlangsungnya penghentian pemerintahan AS memaksa pedagang untuk mencari lindung nilai di logam mulia .

Lemahnya data ekonomi AS juga memberikan kontribusi untuk naiknya komoditas , sebagai aksi jual dolar AS menyebabkan kenaikan harga emas . Kedua aset berkorelasi terbalik .

Di Comex New York Mercantile Exchange , emas berjangka untuk pengiriman Desember turun 050 % menjadi USD1 , 314,10 per ounce di perdagangan Asia Kamis. Kontrak Desember ditutup lebih tinggi pada 2,69% di USD1 , 320,70 per ons pada hari Rabu .

Emas berjangka kemungkinan akan mencari support di USD1 , 272,10 per troy ounce dan resistance pada USD1 , 375,10 .

Di Capitol Hill , Partai Republik dan Demokrat masih belum menemukan kesepakatan tentang dana anggaran , memaksa pemerintah AS untuk menghentikan jalannya pemerintahan pada hari kedua ini. Hal ini menyebabkan dolar AS kehilangan daya tariknya sebagai investasi safe haven , mendorong pedagang untuk beralih ke aset yang lebih stabil seperti emas .

Sementara perak untuk pengiriman Desember turun 0,79 % menjadi USD21.725 per ounce, tembaga untuk Desember turun 0,17 % menjadi USD3.309 per ounce

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Bursa HK Naik Sesi Pertama Didukung Saham Terkait Kasino Macau

Bloomberg, ( 2/10) - Saham-saham Hong Kong menguat, dengan indeks acuan saham menuju kenaikan terbesarnya dalam dua minggu terakhir pasca libur nasional kemarin; saham-saham terkait kasino dan Hutchison Whampoa Ltd mencatat gain besar.

Indeks Hang Seng naik 1,1 persen menjadi 23,106.68 pada istirahat perdagangan di Hong Kong setelah mencatat penurunan paling penurunan paling tajam dalam satu bulan terakhir pada 30 September lalu. Lebih dari empat saham naik untuk setiap satu yang jatuh pada 50 anggota bluechips dengan volume 14 persen lebih rendah dari perdagangan rata-rata intraday 30-hari. Hang Seng China Enterprises Index yang juga dikenal sebagai indeks H-shares, naik 1 persen menjadi 10,423.19. Pasar saham daratan ditutup sampai tanggal 8 Oktober.

'Pasar sedang melakukan teknikal rebound hari ini, tapi terlalu besar,' kata Norman Chan, kepala investasi dari Calibre Asset Management Ltd. 'Orang-orang masih khawatir tentang apa yang akan pemerintah AS lakukan - pasar berekspektasi bahwa mereka dapat menyelesaikan masalah tersebut dalam beberapa hari mendatang tetapi tidak ada yang mau membuat langkah besar.'

Indeks Hang Seng naik sebesar 5,2 persen bulan lalu dan 9,9 persen dalam tiga bulan hingga September, kenaikan kuartalan tertajam sejak periode yang berakhir Maret 2012 seiring data dari China yang mengisyaratkan bahwa ekonomi terbesar kedua di dunia tersebut tengah mengalami penguatan dan Federal Reserve secara tak terduga menahan diri dari pengurangan stimulus.

Saham Galaxy naik 2,4 persen menjadi HK$55,70. Sands China Ltd, sebuah unit perusahaan game Las Vegas dari miliarder Sheldon Adelson, naik 2 persen menjadi HK$48,90. Inspeksi & Koordinasi Biro Koordinasi & Inspeksi Gaming Macau diperkirakan akan merilis pendapatan kasino untuk bulan September pada hari ini setelah mencatat kenaikan sebesar 18 persen pada bulan Agustus dari tahun sebelumnya.

Saham Hutchison Whampoa naik 3,1 persen menjadi HK$95,80 dan memimpin gainer pada Indeks Hang Seng. Perusahaan tersebut mungkin akan mendaftarkan Watsons ke dalam bursa Hong Kong dalam 12 sampai 18 bulan ke depan, menurut Hong Kong Economic Times, mengutip orang tak dikenal.

'Pasar Hong Kong masih dalam konsolidasi, dan dalam waktu dekat mungkin akan tetap seperti itu,' tambah Chan. ' Pasar saham tutup di China dan lemah di AS sehingga itu tidak akan terlalu membantu untuk pasar saham Hong Kong. Ini mungkin butuh sedikit koreksi.

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