Asian stocks steady ahead of Yellen's speech.

A series of Asian stocks outside Japan rose, extending the trend come Monday to aim to peak two weeks ago when Ms. Yellen read first speech before the u. S. Congress. Largest gold producer Zijin Mining Group co. Of China rose 5. 6 percent as the price of gold pieces in Shanghai back to the highest level this year. ANZ banking group, Australia's third largest bank by market value, jumped 2. 4 percent after reporting a quarterly cash interest rates soared 13%. MSCI index of Asia-Pacific excluding Japan rose 0. 9% to 448. 46 while Hong Kong now 11: 08. It rose 3. 1% from base year level are, 2 minutes\/5 when stocks recovered from the waves in a rush. Japan closed the market for national holidays. Ms. Yellen will speak on monetary policy and the Economic Outlook for the first time after the power head of the Central Bank of the u. S. Market is expectations the Fed will ease the tightened this monetary conditions because of weak U. S. Jobs data. Of the 294 companies on Asian index reported first quarter revenue and can estimate was 53%, exceeding expectations of profits, according to Bloomberg data.