Last Thursday, Asia’s stocks were all over the place as investors thought about new details, such as South Korea’s slowing economic growth.

In Japan, the Nikkei 225 was down 0.32 percent to 27,352.24 and the yen was up 0.04 percent against the dollar to JPY 146.31 as of the last trade.

Fanuc, which makes robots, went up 0.34%, Fast Retailing, which owns Uniqlo, went up 0.89 %, and SoftBank Group, which invests in tech, went up 0.93%.

At the end of trading in Tokyo, the broader Topix index was down 0.6%, ending at 1,905.56.

On the mainland, the Shanghai Composite fell 0.55 percent to 2,982.90, and the Shenzhen Component, which focuses on technology, fell 0.63 percent to 10,750.14.

China’s industrial profits fell 2.3% from the same time last year to the first nine months of this year, according to new data from Beijing.

This is a bit more than the 2.1% drop from the same time last year to August.

The National Bureau of Statistics said that manufacturing companies lost 13.2% of their profits during the time period.

Duncan Wrigley at Pantheon Macroeconomics said, “The poor outlook for the world economy will have a bigger effect on the private sector and foreign-invested firms than on state-owned enterprises because they are more dependent on exports.”

“We are also pretty pessimistic about the prospects for domestic demand. We expect a slow recovery in the property market and a zero-Covid policy to last until at least the middle of 2023.”

“This means that sectors that are helped by government policies will continue to be the bright spot in industrial profits.”

The Kospi in South Korea went up 1.74 percent to 2,288.78, and the Hang Seng Index in Hong Kong went up 0.72 percent to 15,427.94.

Korea’s GDP rose 0.3% from one quarter to the next from July to September, according to new data from Seoul.

This is the slowest quarterly growth in a year.

That was less growth than what was reported for the June quarter, which was 0.7%.

On an annual basis, GDP growth went from 2.9% in the second quarter to 3.1% in the third quarter.

Korea’s big technology companies had a mixed day, with SK Hynix falling 4.15 percent and Samsung Electronics barely gaining 0.17 percent.

Samsung made these changes after its third-quarter profits dropped 31.39% from the same time last year, which was about the same as its previous estimate of a 32% drop.

As the region went to sleep, oil prices went up.

Brent crude futures on ICE were up 0.17 percent to $95.85 per barrel, and West Texas Intermediate futures on NYMEX were up 0.02% to $87.93 per barrel.

The S&P/ASX 200 in Australia went up 0.5% to 6,845.10, while the S&P/NZX 50 in New Zealand went up 0.4% to 11,100.52.

Both the Australian dollar (AUD 1.5475) and the New Zealand dollar (NZD 1.7198) fell against the U.S. dollar. The Aussie fell by 0.54% to AUD 1.5475 and the Kiwi fell by 0.34% to NZD 1.7198.

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