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Asia-Pacific markets traded principally greater on Monday because the area kick-started a data-heavy week, with buyers centered on financial readings from a number of international locations, together with Japan, South Korea and China.
Over the weekend, China launched its official buying managers’ index studying for November. Manufacturing PMI got here in at 50.3 — its highest degree since April — beating the 50.2 anticipated by economists polled by Reuters. Manufacturing PMI got here in at 50.1 in October.
China’s non-manufacturing PMI slipped to 50.0 from 50.2 within the earlier month, whereas composite PMI held regular at 50.8.
A studying greater than 50 exhibits enlargement in exercise, whereas beneath that exhibits contraction.
On Monday, manufacturing PMI readings from S&P Global will probably be launched for economies all through Asia, together with the Caixin PMI survey for China.
Australia’s retail gross sales rose 3.4% in October, its quickest year-on-year rise since May 2023.
Indonesia will disclose its inflation numbers for November later within the day.
Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 traded up 0.14%, ending at a report closing excessive of 8,447.9.
South Korea’s markets had been the outlier on Monday, after preliminary commerce information revealed exports grew at their slowest tempo since September 2023 over the weekend.
Exports grew 1.4% 12 months on 12 months in November, lacking expectations of a 2.8% progress from economists polled by Reuters and a pointy decline from the 4.6% rise in October.
The Kospi slipped marginally to 2,454.48, and the small-cap Kosdaq fell 0.35% to a 23 month low of 675.84.
Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 was up 0.8% and closed at 38,513.02, whereas the broad-based Topix was 1.27% greater at 2,714.72.
Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index gained 0.65% in its final hour of commerce, whereas mainland China’s CSI 300 was up 0.79% to shut at 3,947.63. The Hang Seng Mainland Properties Index superior about 0.42% after progress in China’s new dwelling costs accelerated in November.
On Friday within the U.S., the Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 rose to new heights and recorded their greatest months of 2024 amid a shortened buying and selling day.
The S&P 500 added 0.56%, whereas the Nasdaq Composite jumped 0.83%. The Dow climbed 188.59 factors, or 0.42%. Both the Dow and S&P 500 notched new intraday and shutting highs.
Some of the upward momentum got here from chip shares, which popped after Bloomberg reported that the Biden administration was contemplating extra boundaries to the sale of semiconductor tools to China that weren’t as robust as beforehand anticipated. Lam Research rallied greater than 3%, whereas Nvidia jumped greater than 2%.
— CNBC’s Alex Harring contributed to this report.
