Asia Market Wrap 5 October: Every Open Board Rises as Taipei Jumps 2.55 Percent and Tokyo Follows

By The Edge Research Team

Every board open on our Monday set closed higher, with Taipei’s weighted index jumping 2.55 percent to 49,712.04 and the Nikkei 225 rising 2.40 percent to 69,946.86, a close the network’s own report carried to the digit. Tokyo’s broader Topix added 1.33 percent, India’s Nifty 50 rose 0.60 percent on the National Stock Exchange’s own board, Singapore and Hong Kong followed at 0.52 and 0.28 percent, and Sydney ended flat at 0.05 percent higher on the network’s description. Mainland China’s two boards and Seoul did not trade, closed for holidays as the network carried it. Brent crude traded at 102.49 dollars a barrel at 10:00 GMT, 0.23 percent above Friday’s written settlement on the December contract, after the seven OPEC plus countries decided on Sunday to maintain September’s required production for November, per the organization’s own release.

Taipei and Tokyo set the pace with the mainland and Seoul away

The session’s two strongest rows sat an ocean apart. Taipei’s weighted index added 1,236.30 points to 49,712.04, the day’s best move, with no driver carried in the entries we read, and the Nikkei 225 rose 1,637.40 points to 69,946.86 with the Topix 54.22 points higher at 4,145.22, the Tokyo closes matching the network’s own line. The network’s preview had set the region’s higher open against a recovery in Middle East oil flows, and Reuters tied the gains to Friday’s US jobs report, with September’s growth slower than expected and the prior two months revised sharply lower, leaving investors all but ruling out a Federal Reserve increase this month, the October probability at 18 percent from 64 a week earlier on the CME tool as it carried it. Mainland China’s boards in Shanghai and Shenzhen stayed shut for the National Day holiday, on our records closed through Wednesday and reopening Thursday, and Seoul’s Kospi did not trade, closed for a holiday as the network carried it, holding Friday’s 7,003.74.

Mumbai, Singapore and Hong Kong follow as OPEC keeps its November targets

India’s Nifty 50 closed 0.60 percent higher at 22,555.75 on the exchange’s own board, a gain of 133.80 points measured against Thursday’s close across Friday’s Indian market holiday, Singapore’s Straits Times Index rose 0.52 percent to 5,664.33, Hong Kong’s Hang Seng added 0.28 percent to 24,040.34, higher in its last hour on the network’s description, and the S&P/ASX 200 ended 0.05 percent higher at 8,686.40, flat on the network’s own word, with New South Wales on holiday on Reuters’s description of the thin session. On the standing rows at 10:00 GMT, Brent traded 0.23 percent above Friday’s written settlement at 102.49 dollars a barrel on the December contract and WTI 0.43 percent below its own at 90.72, after the seven OPEC plus countries, Saudi Arabia, Russia, Iraq, Kuwait, Kazakhstan, Algeria and Oman, decided on Sunday to maintain September 2026 required production for November and set their next meeting for 1 November, per the organization’s own release, while the network reported more vessels struck in waters near Iran and Oman over the weekend. Gold rose 0.59 percent to 4,186.80 dollars an ounce, silver jumped 2.48 percent, and the euro stood 0.42 percent lower at 1.1206 on our row after touching a 17 month low of 1.1160 overnight, per Reuters, which named France’s fiscal position as the weight on the currency.

Strongest gains

Shallowest gains

Closing levels for Monday 5 October 2026 from the price feed at 10:00 GMT. Every open board on this set closed higher, so the usual gainers and losers tables are a split by depth of gain, the strongest three above and the shallowest four here; changes are against Friday 2 October closes, and the Nifty 50 is against Thursday 1 October across Friday’s Indian market holiday. The India row is the closing value on the National Stock Exchange of India’s own index board at the 15:30 IST close. Mainland China’s two boards and Seoul’s Kospi did not trade and are not carried, closed for holidays.

Commodities and currencies

Intraday quotes at 10:00 GMT on Monday 5 October 2026, fixed row order as a deliberate exception to ranking; snapshot levels, not settlements, with changes against Friday’s reference levels as carried in the price feed. The Brent and WTI previous values match Friday’s written settlements of 102.25 and 91.11 dollars, as published in our Commodities Wrap of 2 October 2026, on the December and November contracts. Contract months as the feed displays them.

Why it matters: A board with no red rows is rare even on a thin day, and this one came with two of the region’s largest markets away: the advance ran from Sydney’s flat close to Taipei’s 2.55 percent jump with nothing lower in between, on our count, while the oil complex opened the week steady after the seven OPEC plus countries maintained September’s required production for November. The advance ran on Friday’s jobs miss as Reuters framed it, not on fresh regional news, and the euro’s overnight slide to a 17 month low on the same report puts the week’s currency pressure in Europe rather than Asia, with Wednesday’s Federal Reserve minutes the next test for the yields the network’s preview had investors watching. Across the board we published on Monday, the Taiex was the best row at 2.55 percent higher and the S&P/ASX 200 the shallowest at 0.05 percent, on our count.

Outlook: Mainland China’s boards stay shut through Wednesday and reopen on Thursday, on our records, with Seoul’s return not asserted here. The week’s calendar runs through Wednesday’s Federal Reserve minutes and Friday’s University of Michigan preliminary October sentiment reading, both as the network carried them and as published in our Week Ahead of 3 October. Our Middle East wrap follows this afternoon with the Gulf closes, and tonight’s commodities wrap reads the session’s written settlements on the same December and November crude series.

Sources: CNBC, Reuters, OPEC, National Stock Exchange of India, The Edge.

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