Japan’s Nikkei Stock Average JP:100000018 +1.40% jumped 1.4%, with the move bringing year-to-date gains for the index to 3.9%.
But elsewhere, “sentiment swiftly turned negative on the back of the China [consumer inflation] numbers,” said Stan Shamu, strategist at IG Markets.
Chinese consumer prices rose by 2.5% in December, slightly exceeding consensus economist estimates and representing a seven-month high for the data series
