Reuters Nintendo shares jumped 4.3% Friday, and are up 17% this month.As most Asia-Pacific stock markets look likely to end the week higher, Australia has underperformed with a noted drop in energy stocks. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 XJO, -0.15% , one of the worst-performing indexes in the Asia-Pacific region in 2017, closed down 0.1% to notch its sixth decline in eight sessions after having recently reached 10-year highs. While oil prices until Friday remained at a three-year best—crude fell 1% in Asian trading on worries about rising production—the energy sector slid 0.7% for the day and 4.5% for the week, the most since June. The sector had risen 8.3% during a five-week winning streak. The market seems to be signaling that the next move for oil is lower, resulting in investors pulling out of energy stocks ahead of any sharp fall in crude prices, said Michael McCarthy, CMC Markets’ chief market strategist in Australia. And with the earnings season looming, he added, investors are waiting to see how much the sector has profited from late 2017’s oil-price gains.via