Asian shares jumped on Tuesday, with Japanese stocks hitting a 30-year high, as hopes that a long-awaited U.S. pandemic relief package would be expanded and a Brexit trade deal supported investor risk appetite.
Asian Shares
- MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan rose 0.46%.
- Australian stocks rose 0.55%.
- Japan’s Nikkei leapt 1.63% to its highest since August 1990, while shares in China rose 0.1%.
Oil Prices
- Brent crude rose 0.69% to $51.21 per barrel.
- U.S. crude was up 0.71% at $47.96 a barrel.
Currency
- The dollar index against a basket of six major currencies stood at 90.241, not far from the lowest in more than two years.