Stock market today: Asian shares mostly rise, lifted by bull market on Wall Street
Asian shares are trading mostly higher, led by a jump on the Tokyo Stock Exchange where share prices got a boost of optimism from a new bull market on Wall Street TOKYO -- Asian shares mostly rose Friday, led by a jump on the Tokyo Stock Exchange where share prices got a boost of optimism from a new bull market on Wall Street. Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 surged 1.8% in morning trading to 32,217.76. Australia's S &P/ASX 200 gained 0.4% to 7,126.50. South Korea's Kospi added 0.9% to 2,634.96. Hong Kong's Hang Seng advanced 0.3% to 19,352.59. The Shanghai Composite inched up less than 0.1% to 3,215.62. On Wall Street, the S &P 500 rose 0.6% to carry it 20% above the bottom it hit in October. That means Wall Street’s main measure of Health has climbed out of a painful bear market , which saw it drop 25.4% over roughly nine months. The arrival of a bull market also doesn’t mean the stock market has made it back to its prior heights. A 25% drop for the S &P 5...