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Asia stocks rise on us jobs data, AP reports

YEREVAN, May 3. /ARKA/. Asian stock markets rose Friday, finding renewed strength from a fall in U.S. jobless benefit claims and an interest rate cut by the European Central Bank intended to boost the region’s ebbing economy.

Investors jittery over the state of the U.S. economy took heart from a U.S. Labor Department report that said applications for unemployment benefits fell last week to the lowest level in more than four years. That calmed fears that intensified Wednesday following the release of reports showing lackluster hiring and factory output.

Hong Kong’s Hang Seng rose 0.7 percent to 22,823.70. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 added 0.1 percent to 5,134.60. South Korea’s Kospi rose 0.2 percent to 1,960.80. Benchmarks in the Philippines and Thailand rose while those in New Zealand and Singapore fell.

“The market is basically riding on the U.S. market’s rise today,” said Francis Lun, chief economist at GE Oriental Financial Group in Hong Kong. Mainland Chinese stocks posted sharp gains, but that was mostly due to bargain-hunting after a sharp fall, Lun said.

Markets in Japan were closed for a public holiday.

Among individual stocks, Hong Kong-listed property and consumer shares posted solid gains. Evergrande Real Estate Group rose 4.1 percent. Instant noodle maker Tingyi Holding Corp. rose 3.2 percent.

The Labor Department report and higher profits from CBS, Facebook and other companies sent Wall Street higher Thursday. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 0.9 percent to 14,831.58. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index rose 0.9 percent to 1,597.59. The Nasdaq composite index climbed 1.3 percent to 3,340.62.

On Friday, the U.S. government’s closely watched monthly employment report will be released.
Benchmark oil for June delivery was down 19 cents to $93.80 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract rose $2.96, or 3.3 percent, to finish at $93.99 a barrel on the Nymex on Thursday, the biggest one-day gain for crude since November.

In currencies, the euro rose to $1.3076 from $1.3058 late Thursday in New York. The dollar rose slightly to 98 yen from 97.96 yen. –0–

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