Investing.com - Asian shares were mixed on Friday with Sydney edging up after a busy data day.
The market in Tokyo was shut on Friday.
The S&P/ASX 200 rose 0.39%. In Australia, housing credit data rose 0.5% in March, unchanged from the previous month, while first quarter producer prices fell 0.2%, compared with a 0.2% gain seen quarter-on-quarter. As well, private sector credit for March gained 0.4%, compared with a 0.6% month-on-month rise seen.
The the Shanghai Composite Index eased 0.07% and the Hang Seng index was last down 1.26%.
The yuan rose against the dollar on Thursday after the People's Bank of China set the fixing 0.56% stronger - the biggest single-day percentage increase since July 2005 - at 6.4589 compared with 6.4954.
Overnight, U.S. stocks were lower after the close on Thursday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Technology and Consumer Services sectors led shares lower.
At the close in NYSE, the Dow Jones Industrial Average declined 1.17%, while the S&P 500 index fell 0.92%, and the NASDAQ Composite index declined 1.19%.