0725 GMT - Chinese shares close higher, reversing opening losses. Investors are awaiting the official readout of the Third Plenum meeting, which concludes today. Telecommunication and consumer sectors led the gains with China Mobile up 3.1% and China Unicom rising 1.7%. Yonghui Superstores rose 5.4%. Meanwhile, semiconductor and solar stocks declined. GigaDevice Semiconductor and TCL Zhonghuan Renewable Energy Technology fell 2.2% and 2.1%, respectively. The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index closed 0.5% higher at 2977.13, the Shenzhen Composite Index gained 0.3% and the ChiNext Price Index rose 1.25%. (jiahui.huang@wsj.com; @ivy_jiahuihuang)
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
July 18, 2024 03:25 ET (07:25 GMT)
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