Asian shares were mixed Monday in a cautious mode after Wall Street closed out the week with milestones as the Dow Jones Industrial Average crossed 28,000 for the first time and the S&P 500 and Nasdaq hit record highs.
Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 NIK, +0.49% inched up nearly 0.4% in morning trading. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 XJO, -0.40% fell 0.6% while South Korea’s Kospi 180721, -0.07% lost 0.3%. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng HSI, +1.17% added 1.1% while the Shanghai Composite SHCOMP, +0.62% was up nearly 0.6%.
Among individual stocks, shares of Yahoo Japan parent Z Holdings 4689, +1.20% , majority stakeholder SoftBank 9984, +1.64% and Line 3938, +2.18% rose in Tokyo trading after a merger deal was announced between the internet portal and the country’s leading chat app. In Hong Kong, Geely Automobile 175, +3.92% , Wharf Real Estate 1997, +2.62% and AIA Group 1299, +1.56% surged. LG Electronics 066570, +1.42% gained in South Korea, while Westpac WBC, -0.68% slipped in Australia.
“Market focus this week will still lies on the U.S.-China trade talk, and updates in Hong Kong. Hong Kong domestic economy is on the verge of a recession as recent riot has adversely hurt its retail, service, tourism, aviation, education sectors and has caused severe reputational damage to the city as one of Asia’s most important financial hub,” said Margaret Yang Yan, analyst at CMC Markets in Singapore.
On Wall Street, health care and technology stocks powered most of the broad rally, which helped drive the S&P 500 to its sixth straight weekly gain. The Dow extended its streak of weekly gains to four.
Investors have been encouraged by surprisingly good corporate earnings, three interest rate cuts by the Federal Reserve and data showing the economy is still growing solidly.
Hopes that the U.S. and China can make progress in their latest push for a trade deal have also helped keep investors in a buying mood.
The S&P 500 index SPX, +0.95% rose 23.83 points, or 0.8%, to 3,120.46. The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, +0.80% gained 222.93 points, or 0.8%, to 28,004.89. The Nasdaq composite COMP, +0.73% climbed 61.81, or 0.7%, to 8,540.83.
The S&P, Dow and Nasdaq are now all up by more than 20% for the year.
Traders hope the world’s two biggest economies can make a deal before new and more damaging tariffs take effect next month. Beijing is pressing Washington to roll back tariffs as part of a potential deal that the nations are trying to hammer out.
Benchmark crude oil CLZ19, +0.35% added 8 cents to $57.80 a barrel. It rose 95 cents to $57.72 a barrel on Friday. Brent crude BRNF20, +0.17% , the international standard, inched up 2 cents to $63.32 a barrel.
The dollar USDJPY, +0.16% rose to 108.84 Japanese yen from 108.70 yen Friday.
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