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Bernanke said interest rates remain low for growth. Evergreen Marine Corp., the largest container shipping from Asia, increased 11 percent in Taipei after doses of freight. Li & Fung Ltd., which gets 62 percent of U.S. sales, gained 2.9 percent in Hong Kong, as Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Woolworths Ltd., Australia's largest retailer, rose 4 percent in Sydney after reporting higher profits and announcing a stock buyback.

India tighten their lending policies and to withdraw from the stimuli. The MSCI Asia Pacific Index rose 34 percent last year, while governments around the world a boost to spending and rates of central banks at low interest rates to help revive the economies hit by the global slowdown. The index has fallen about 2.3 percent this year on signs governments from China to the United States

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