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HONG KONG, April 5- Hong Kong shares tumbled to a four-month low on Friday, led by airlines as fears of a bird flu outbreak sparked a broad selloff, with a benchmark index breaking below a key chart support, pointing at further losses ahead.
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*BOJ pledges to pump $1.4 trillion into economy. TOKYO, April 5- The yen touched a 3-1/ 2- year low on Friday after suffering its biggest one-day tumble since late 2008 in the previous session, when the Bank of Japan surprised markets with a radical campaign of monetary expansion to attack deflation.
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*Korea tensions, Iran talks eyed. SINGAPORE, April 5- Brent crude edged up toward $107 per barrel on Friday after hitting a 5- month low in the prior session, but prices were headed for their worst week in a month as bleak U.S. data and bulging inventories dimmed the outlook for demand. Brent crude rose 13 cents to $106.47 a barrel by 0436 GMT, off an earlier high of $106.65.
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--Clyde Russell is a Reuters market analyst. That's the question that should be asked after Thursday's announcement by Royal Dutch Shell that it would close its Geelong refinery in Victoria state and convert it to an import terminal if a buyer couldn't be found.
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SINGAPORE, April 5- Singapore's central bank said it will issue its half-yearly monetary policy statement on April 12, with all 11 forecasters polled by Reuters expecting it to maintain the current appreciation path for the Singapore dollar.
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*HSI -2.1 pct, H-shares -2.5 pct, China shut. *China oil majors hit by slumping oil prices. HONG KONG, April 5- Hong Kong shares tumbled to a four-month low on Friday, with growth-sensitive sectors taking some of the bigger hits on rising worries a new strain of bird flu in China could hurt the local economy.
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SINGAPORE, April 5- Singapore's central bank said it will issue its half-yearly monetary policy statement on April 12, with all 11 forecasters polled by Reuters expecting it to maintain the current appreciation path for the Singapore dollar.
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*Korea tensions, Iran talks eyed. SINGAPORE, April 5- Brent crude edged up toward $107 per barrel on Friday after hitting a 5- month low in the prior session, but prices were headed for their worst week in a month as bleak U.S. data and bulging inventories dimmed the outlook for demand. Brent rose 14 cents to $106.48 a barrel by 0236 GMT, off an earlier high of $106.65.
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SINGAPORE, April 5- London copper was steady on Friday, not far from 8- month lows hit the prior session, buttressed by the Bank of Japan's unprecedented stimulus and biding time ahead of a headline U.S. jobs report with top consumer China out on holiday. *Copper on Thursday plumbed its lowest since Aug. 3 at $7,331.25 a tonne.
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SINGAPORE, April 5- Gold steadied on Friday but held near its weakest since May last year as investors waited for key U.S. jobs data for more clues on the health of the world's largest economy, while a drop in ETF holdings dragged on prices. *Gold was little changed at $1,553.56 an ounce by 0033 GMT, still heading for a second week of decline.
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HONG KONG, April 5- Hong Kong shares could start higher on Friday as markets reopen following a public holiday, bolstered by the Bank of Japan's unprecedented monetary expansion.
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*Technical support seen near 85- to 86- cent range- broker. NEW YORK, April 4- ICE cotton fell on Thursday, as weekly U.S. government export data were not seen as strong enough to boost prices and losses across commodities markets weighed. The most-active May cotton contract on ICE Futures U.S. fell 0.89 cent, or 1 percent, to settle at 88.33 cents per pound.
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LONDON, April 4- The International Energy Agency will invite China and other emerging economies to take part in key strategic talks, sources in the IEA said, in a bid to strengthen ties with non-members whose share in global oil demand has rapidly grown.
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*Corn market struggles to find a bottom after USDA stocks data. CHICAGO, April 4- U.S. corn futures fell to a nine-month low Thursday on continued technical selling and fund liquidation, while soybeans hit a 10- month low on worries that bird flu cases in China may slow feed demand there, traders said.
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*Boeing sold 220 jets or 209 after cancellations. *Airbus delivers 144 aircraft, Boeing 137 in Q1. PARIS/ NEW YORK, April 4- Airbus recaptured the aircraft industry's top spot in the first quarter as U.S. rival Boeing fell behind on orders and grappled with the grounding of its newest jet, the 787 Dreamliner, data from both companies showed on Thursday.
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NEW YORK, April 4- If you read just one book this spring to understand how the world is changing, it should be Mohsin Hamid's new novel, "How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia." Asia's rise is a story of the eastward tilt of global gross domestic product, but behind those numbers are billions of individual lives that are being radically transformed.
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HONG KONG, April 5- The mystery lender behind a Thai billionaire's $9.4 billion purchase of a stake in China's No.2 insurer was UBS, which offered a last minute and complex financing package known to only a few involved, people with knowledge of the matter told Reuters.
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SEOUL/ WASHINGTON- The United States said it would soon send a missile defence system to Guam to defend it from North Korea, as the U.S. military adjusts to what Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel called a "real and clear danger" from Pyongyang.
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HOUSTON-- Energy company Harvest Natural Resources Inc. says it will need to restate some financial results published between 2010 and 2012..
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"The jobless claims added to the pressure after the Bank of Japan's decision to pump money created a big rally in the dollar and U.S. debt in a safe-haven play," said Phil Flynn, analyst at Price Futures Group in Chicago.