“It’s very hard to be bearish here,” Federated Investors Management senior equity strategist Linda Duessel told Bloomberg TV. The positive energy funneled through to Asia, where most markets ended broadly up. In Taipei, the TAIEX on Friday closed up 23.36 points, or 0.2 percent, at 12,090.29, rising 0.5 percent from a close of 12,024.65 a week earlier. Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 on Friday rose 108.13 points, or 0.5 percent, at 24,041.26, a jump of 0.8 percent from 23,850.57 a week earlier. Seoul’s KOSPI on Friday rose 2.52 points, or 0.1 percent, to 2,250.57, surging 2 percent from 2,206.39 a week earlier.
