Britain's tax backdown bounces stocks and sterling

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SYDNEY: Asian stocks bounced on Tuesday (Oct 4) after Britain scrapped bits of a controversial tax cut plan, tentatively improving global market sentiment and rallying bonds and the pound. In trade thinned by holidays in China and Hong Kong, MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan rose 1

SYDNEY: Asian stocks bounced on Tuesday after Britain scrapped bits of a controversial tax cut plan, tentatively improving global market sentiment and rallying bonds and the pound.

"The about-face ... will not have a huge impact on the overall UK fiscal situation in our view," said NatWest Markets' head of economics and markets strategy John Briggs. South Korea's Kospi bounced 2.3 per cent, lifting away from last week's two-year low, despite North Korea firing a missile over Japan for the first time in five years.

Chinese authorities have rolled out manoeuvres to support the yuan ranging from unusually strong signals to the market to administrative measures that raise the cost of shorting it.

 

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