What’s happening on the Asian stock market charts right now? The major Asian indicators are mostly up 0.88%. Some indicators, however, showed quite a slight increase: Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index gained 0.13% and Shanghai’s Shanghai Composite gained 0.28%. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 gained slightly more – 0.52%. The Shenzhen Shenzhen Composite gained roughly the same amount, 0.53%. Japan’s Nikkei 225 and Korea’s KOSPI gained little more than the rest with 0.83% and 0.88% respectively.

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As usual, stock markets in Asia are following the trends of the USA indicators. Stock markets in America are rising on the eve of the release of U.S. employment statistics. According to the experts’ preliminary estimates, jobless claims for the previous week are expected to increase by 3 thousand up to 259 thousand.

Analysts forecast that the unemployment rate last month will remain at June’s level of 3.6%. The number of people employed in jobs other than agriculture is also expected to increase by 250,000 after rising by 372,000 in June. 

If the numbers do turn out to be weak enough, it could influence the U.S. Federal Reserve’s next monetary policy easing decisions. For the central regulator, the main objectives are to combat inflation while preventing the onset of an economic downturn.