Snap Shot of Asian Bourses

So how have Asia's equity benchmarks been performing of late? All charts from Bloomberg.com

For the major ASEAN markets (Malaysia's KLSE-blue, Philippine Phisix-green, Thailand's Seti-yellow, Indonesia's JKSE- orange), we notice some consolidation or possible indications of a "bottom" formation.

For South Asia, only Pakistan's Karachi 100 in green remains visibly weak while the rest seems to be in rangebound. India's BSE 30 (yellow) appears to be drifting at the near lows. On the other hand, Bangladesh's Dhaka in orange and Sri Lanka's Colombo in Blue seem significantly off their lows.

The industrialized export driven economies of Asia seem mostly coasting along the lows (Singapore's STI-blue, Taiwan's Taiex-green and Nikkei-yellow). Only crisis stricken Korea (orange) seems to have improved substantially.

Finally we see contrasting performances in Australia's S&P ASX 200 (green) also wafting near the lows while New Zealand's NZ 50 seems to be testing its resistance level.

Overall, performances have been mixed albeit those with less exposure to global ex-intraregion trade appear to be performing better.