ASIAN stock markets continued to be dogged by worries about an impending US interest rate rise but that did not prevent Australia's benchmark index from reaching an all-time high yesterday.
The Tokyo market was the region's top performer of the day with the Nikkei 225 chalking up a 1.92% gain to 11,600 points. Only two other Asian markets ended up by more than 1% – Bangkok's SET Index rose 1.18% to 630 and Seoul's Kospi gained 1.07% to 749.
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