SE Asia Stocks- Gain on Japan's monetary stimulus, inflows

BANGKOK, Oct 31 (Reuters) - Southeast Asian stock markets

rose on Friday as steps towards further monetary easing by the

Bank of Japan lifted market sentiment. Bank stocks helped

Singapore's benchmark touch a one-month high and late buying

into large caps boosted shares of Thai PTT in Bangkok.

Singapore's Straits Times Index was up 1.2 percent

at 3,276.74, its highest since Sept. 30. Shares of United

Overseas Bank and Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation

led the gainers after favourable earnings numbers.

The Thai SET index ended up 1.2 percent at 1,584.16,

a near one-month high. Shares of PTT jumped 3.95

percent, their biggest single-day gain in nearly eight weeks.

Most Southeast Asian stock markets ended little changed on

the month after suffering losses earlier in the month due to

concerns over the health of the global economy.

Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines

reported net buying by foreign investors worth 325.7

billion rupiah ($6.96 million), 180 million ringgit ($54.72

million) and 695.7 million peso ($15.49 million), respectively,

on Friday, Thomson Reuters and stock exchange data showed.

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Change on day

Market Current Prev Close Pct Move

Singapore 3274.25 3234.31 +1.23

Kuala Lumpur 1855.15 1842.78 +0.67

Bangkok 1584.16 1565.35 +1.20

Jakarta 5089.55 5058.85 +0.61

Manila 7215.73 7170.99 +0.62

Ho Chi Minh 600.84 589.14 +1.99

Change on year

Market Current End 2013 Pct Move

Singapore 3274.25 3167.43 +3.37

Kuala Lumpur 1855.15 1866.96 -0.63

Bangkok 1584.16 1298.71 +21.98

Jakarta 5089.55 4274.18 +19.08

Manila 7215.73 5889.83 +22.51

Ho Chi Minh 600.84 504.63 +19.07

(1 US dollar = 3.2895 Malaysian ringgit)

(1 US dollar = 44.9100 Philippine peso)

(1 US dollar = 12,080.0000 rupiah)

(Reporting by Viparat Jantraprap; Editing by Biju Dwarakanath)