💡 Latest market moves; do take note of the change in market making hours for warrants over the Nikkei 225 effective Monday

• Asia-Pacific markets fell on Thursday as the Bank of Japan (BoJ) held its benchmark policy rate at 0.25%, unchanged from the previous meeting (CNBC, 31 Oct).

• Meanwhile, China’s purchasing managers' index (PMI) for its manufacturing industry rose to 50.1 in October, marking a return to expansion territory after 5 months of contraction (Global Times, 31 Oct).

• While the Malaysian market was shut yesterday, the Nikkei 225 Index (NIKKEI) fell 0.5% on Thursday, while the Hang Seng Index (HSI) fell 0.3%.

• This morning, the NIKKEI SGX December futures and HSI November futures, over which the NIKKEI and HSI warrants currently track, are down 2.0% and up 0.9%, respectively. With the move, focus put NIKKEI-HF, which moves in the opposite direction to its underlying, has gained 30.1%. Investors may view the live matrix for the focus warrants over the NIKKEI and HSI here.

‼️ Do note a change in the market making hours for Macquarie Warrants Malaysia’s NIKKEI warrants, effective Monday, 4 November. There is no change for the morning session (9:00am to 12:29pm) while market making hours for the afternoon session will be from 2:30pm to 2:53pm, then 3:25pm to 4:43pm. This is due to a change in the trading hours for the SGX Nikkei derivatives.