Shares were mostly lower in Asia on Friday after Wall Street extended a rally into a third day and oil prices pushed higher, surpassing $105 per barrel.
Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 index JP:NIK rose 0.2% and the S&P/ASX 200 AU:XJO in Sydney gained 0.5%.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called for more help for his country after days of bombardment of civilian sites in multiple cities over the past few days. Wrapping up a two-day meeting, the Bank of Japan opted to keep its monetary policy unchanged, with its benchmark interest rate at minus 0.1%. Japan’s central bank has been keeping interest rates ultra low and pumping tens of billions of dollars into the world’s third largest economy for years, trying to spur faster growth.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA added 1.2% to 34,480.76. The Nasdaq COMP rose 1.3% to 13,614.78. The tech-heavy index is on pace for its biggest weekly gain in more than a year. Brent crude BRNK22 , the international standard, added $2.42 to $109.06 per barrel in London. It leaped 8.8% to settle at $106.64 per barrel.
Asked about the reports India was buying oil from Russia at a discounted price, India’s External Affairs Ministry spokesman Arindam Bagchi did not directly confirm or deny them.
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