Australia's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate increased 0.1 percentage points to 5.8 percent in August, as announced by the Australian Bureau of Statistics ( ABS) Thursday.
U.S. oil prices rose to a nine- month high, as the Syrian conflict bolstered concern of supplies from the Middle East.
The Japanese economy grew an annualized real 3.5 percent in the first quarter of 2013, according to the government data released on Thursday.