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GLOBAL MARKETS-Stocks advance after U.S. government reopens for now

Published 28/01/2019, 02:02 pm
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* Asian stock markets: https://tmsnrt.rs/2zpUAr4

* Asia lifted after end to US govt shutdown boosts Wall Street

* U.S.-China trade talks, Brexit steps and Fed eyed for cues

By Shinichi Saoshiro

TOKYO, Jan 28 (Reuters) - Asian stocks advanced on Monday as Wall Street rallied after a deal was announced to reopen the U.S. government following a prolonged shutdown that had taken a toll on investor sentiment.

MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan .MIAPJ0000PUS climbed 0.4 percent.

The Shanghai Composite Index .SSEC rose 0.7 percent and Hong Kong's Hang Seng .HSI was up 0.5 percent.

South Korea's KOSPI .KS11 edged up 0.1 percent, while Japan's Nikkei .N225 bucked the trend and eased 0.3 percent. Australian financial markets were shut for their 'Australia Day' holiday.

Facing mounting pressure, U.S. President Donald Trump agreed on Friday to temporarily end a 35-day-old partial U.S. government shutdown without getting the $5.7 billion he had demanded from Congress for a border wall. response Wall Street rallied broadly on Friday as investors were relieved to see an end to one of the longest U.S. government shutdown in history. .N

The shutdown had left the markets anxious as it came at a time of heightened worries over slowing global growth, signs of stress in corporate earnings and a still unresolved Sino-U.S. trade war.

"The rise in the broader stock markets looks to keep going. The U.S. government reopening is definitely a plus for market sentiment," said Soichiro Monji, senior economist at Daiwa SB Investments.

"There are still potential risk factors, such as the U.S.-China trade row and Brexit," he said.

Chinese Vice Premier Liu He will visit the United States on Jan. 30-31 for the next round of trade negotiations with Washington.

Besides the underlying anxiety on trade, the temporary nature of the U.S. government's reopening - Trump has threatened to resume the shutdown on Feb. 15 if his demands aren't met - remained a source of concern.

"As things stand this morning, we have only 18 days left before we get another government shutdown, or a Wall. That should keep things interesting for markets," wrote strategists at Rabobank.

In the currency market, the pound hovered near a three-month high of $1.3218 GBP=D3 set on Friday on the back of optimism that Britain can avoid a no-deal Brexit.

Britain is set to leave the European Union on March 29, but the country's members of parliament remain far from agreeing a divorce deal and longer term prospects for sterling remained far from clear.

The immediate focus was on Tuesday, when the British parliament will debate and vote on Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit "plan B".

The euro was also on the front foot against the sagging dollar, which was on the defensive ahead of the Federal Reserve's Jan. 29-30 policy meeting where it is expected to leave interest rates unchanged after raising them four times last year.

The attention will be on the policy outlook as the Fed has signalled a slower pace of rate increases this year with markets speculating it might pause its tightening cycle soon.

The single currency was 0.05 percent higher at $1.1411 EUR= after gaining 0.9 percent on Friday, paring the losses from earlier last week on dovish-sounding comments by European Central Bank President Mario Draghi.

The dollar was slipped 0.2 percent to 109.35 yen JPY= following mild losses at the end of last week.

The benchmark 10-year Treasury yield US10YT=RR was little changed at 2.747 percent after popping up 4 basis points on Friday in the wake of surging U.S. shares.

U.S. crude oil futures CLc1 were down 0.4 percent at $53.48 per barrel, with a rise in U.S. rig count stopping a two-day winning run. O/R

Oil prices rose towards the end of last week as political turmoil in Venezuela threatened to tighten crude supply, with the United States signalling it may impose sanctions on exports from the South American nation.

(Editing by Shri Navaratnam)

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