Upbeat China factory surveys buoy Asia stocks(Update)

MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan were down 0.1 percent. Japan's Nikkei reversed earlier losses to rise 0.7 percent. (A businessman looks at an electronic indicator showing the closing numbers of the Tokyo stock market, in the window of a securities company in Tokyo on June 14, 2016. The Nikkei 225 index fell 1.00 percent, or 160.18 points, to 15,859.00, a two-month low on June 14 as growing fears over Britain's possible exit from the European Union hammer sentiment ahead of US and Japanese central bank meetings. - AFP)

Hong Kong stocks rose 0.7 percent while Shanghai stocks also crept in the black. Property names led the charge though further gains may be checked by concerns of more curbs on home purchases to cool soaring prices.

But worries over the U.S. election largely overshadowed the upbeat China data and other events this week.