• Asia Pacific stocks close

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29 January 2014

Asia Pacific stocks close

Asian stocks rose, with the regional benchmark index on course for its biggest advance in four months, after Turkey’s central bank more than doubled interest rates to arrest a currency slide that roiled global markets.

FTSE 100 6,572.33 +21.67 +0.33%

CAC 40 4,185.29 +40.73 +0.98%

Xetra DAX 9,406.91 +57.69 +0.62%

Honda Motor Co., which gets 83 percent of its car sales outside Japan, climbed 3 percent as the yen weakened against the dollar.

Atlas Iron Ltd. jumped 10 percent in Sydney after the producer of the metal used to make steel raised its shipment target.

Advantest Corp., a maker of electronic measuring instruments, sank 4.4 percent in Tokyo after widening its full-year net loss forecast.

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