Asian 在庫／株s grind higher as 焦点（を合わせる） turns to 収入s
By Tom Westbrook and John McCrank
SINGAPORE/NEW YORK, July 9 (Reuters) - Asian 公正，普通株主権 markets ground higher as 投資家s tried to look past 集会 Sino-U.S. 緊張 and 新たにするd coronavirus lockdowns to 近づいている company 収入s, hoping that 全世界の 刺激 成果／努力s will 産する／生じる 上昇傾向 見通しs.
MSCI's broadest 索引 of Asia-太平洋の 株 outside Japan rose 0.6% and touched a 20-week high as Chinese 在庫／株s 延長するd their 驚くべき／特命の／臨時の 決起大会／結集させる.
Japan's Nikkei 辛勝する／優位d ahead by 0.2%.
The Chinese yuan rose to a four-month high of 6.9872 per dollar and the 米国紙幣 sat 近づく a one-month low against a basket of 通貨s .
中国 was 攻撃する，衝突する first and so is 現れるing first from the COVID-19 pandemic. In 新規加入, 会計の 刺激, 激しい 政府 borrowing 運動ing up 社債 産する／生じるs, and a 明言する／公表する-マスコミ 編集（者）の extolling strong 根底となるs have stoked 幸福感.
"The yuan has a perfect combination for a 通貨 - 比較して tight 通貨の 政策; 産する／生じる spreads moving in favour of the 通貨 and 公正，普通株主権 prices also rising more than most," said Deutsche Bank's 長，指導者 international strategist, Alan Ruskin.
"Even before we think of COVID-19 ウイルス 相違 指示する人（物）s, there are enough money and 関係のある 財政上の 指示する人（物）s 一貫した with a dollar/yuan below 7," he said.
中国's blue-半導体素子 索引 rose for an eighth straight 開会／開廷／会期 in 早期に 貿易（する） on Thursday, 伸び（る）ing 0.6% to touch a five-year high. The Shanghai 合成物 was up by the same 利ざや and at its highest level since 早期に 2018.
Both have 追加するd about 15% this month, and the 決起大会／結集させる continued in spite of a more circumspect take in Chinese マスコミ, which carried a commentary reminding 投資家s about the 2015 衝突，墜落 and 示唆するing a 合理的な／理性的な approach to 危険-taking.
The mood 解除するd Australia's S&P/ASX 200 1%, though New Zealand's （判断の）基準 fell nearly 2% after a Rio Tinto 計画（する） to の近くに an aluminium smelter 攻撃する，衝突する energy 在庫／株s.
抑制 was more e vident in other 資産 classes as 投資家s kept a 用心深い 注目する，もくろむ on 殺到するing coronavirus 事例／患者s and 増加するing 緊張 between 中国 and its 貿易（する）ing partners, while waiting for U.S. 職業s 人物／姿／数字s at 1230 GMT and next week's 収入s.
U.S. 在庫／株 未来s 緩和するd 0.1%, に引き続いて another 開会／開廷／会期 of 伸び（る）s on 塀で囲む Street 夜通し. The 産する／生じる on （判断の）基準 U.S. 10-year 財務省s remained under 圧力 at 0.6562% and gold sat above $1,800 an ounce.
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The U.S. has 地位，任命するd its largest number of daily new 感染s since the 突発／発生 began and 全世界の 緊張s are on the rise.
Five million Australians are under strict stay-at-home 支配するs in the country's second largest city of Melbourne.
And - as the West 検討する，考慮するs a tougher 返答 to 中国's 厳重取締 in Hong Kong - 中国's 最高の，を越す 外交官 said on Thursday that 中国-U.S. relations 直面する the most serious challenges since 外交の 関係 were 設立するd.
That has 投資家s hoping to hear some good news about the 見通し when U.S. 収入s season begins next week.
"収入s season is upon us, and we really want to see what it looks like," said Jun Bei Liu, a 大臣の地位 経営者／支配人 at Australia's Tribeca 投資 Partners. The 焦点（を合わせる） will be on the 見通し 同様に as on understanding how 深く，強烈に 刺激 成果／努力s have flowed through the real economy, she said.
J.P. Morgan, Citigroup and 井戸／弁護士席s Fargo 報告（する）／憶測 their results on Tuesday, and Microsoft and Netflix on Thursday.
Beyond the yuan, major 通貨s were mostly 安定した on Thursday, hanging on to 夜通し 伸び（る）s against the dollar. The Aussie held 近づく the 最高の，を越す of its 最近の 範囲 at $0.6974 and the kiwi 簡潔に made a one-month 頂点（に達する） of $0.6583.
Oil prices idled まっただ中に 関心s about 新たにするd U.S. lockdowns. Brent 天然のまま 未来s was 0.1% 女性 at $43.25 per バーレル／樽. U.S. 天然のまま fell 0.3% to $40.79 per バーレル／樽. (報告（する）／憶測ing by Tom Westbrook in Singapore and John McCrank in New York; Editing by Sam Holmes and Tom Hogue)
