News Headline Summary

Hang Seng and Shanghai Composite move back to flat on the session having opened lower ahead of the release of the HSBC Chinese Services PMI due in 5 minutes

Update details:

- As a reminder we did see the release of the official service PMI at the weekend which showed a marked improvement on previous coming in at 55.5 (Oct) from 53.7.
- Participants may well be looking for the HSBC reading to follow suit.
- HSBC reading has no expectation but came in previously (Sep) at 54.3.

Print 01:40, 05 Nov 2012 - Asian News - Source: RANsquawk