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Asian markets climbed Monday as investors awaited trade talks between Washington and Beijing<\/a> later in the day, with focus also on key China data.<\/p>\n Trade tensions are seemingly easing between the world’s top two economies as China has reportedly granted temporary approvals<\/a> for the export of rare earths, while jetliner Boeing Co<\/a> has begun commercial jet deliveries<\/a> to the Asian superpower.<\/p>\n China is slated to release a slew of data, including its consumer and wholesale inflation readings for May. Economists polled by Reuters expect consumer prices to have fallen by 0.2% year on year, while PPI is forecast to have declined by 3.2% from a year earlier.<\/p>\n Japan’s benchmark\u00a0Nikkei 225<\/a>\u00a0advanced 0.91% in early trade, while the broader Topix index rose 0.61%.<\/p>\n The country’s GDP contraction for the January to March quarter narrowed to an annualized 0.2%<\/a>, from the 0.7% print released previously, revised estimates showed.<\/p>\n In South Korea, the\u00a0Kospi<\/a>\u00a0index climbed 1.55%\u00a0while the small-cap Kosdaq added 0.21%.<\/p>\n Futures for Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index<\/a> stood at 23,801 pointing to a marginally higher open compared to the HSI’s Friday close of 23,792.54.<\/p>\n Australian markets are closed for a public holiday.<\/p>\n U.S. equity futures<\/a> were mostly flat in early Asian trade.<\/p>\n All three key benchmarks on Wall Street jumped last Friday<\/a>, after the non-farm payrolls data came in better-than-expected.<\/p>\n U.S. payrolls\u00a0climbed 139,000 in May<\/a>, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday, above the Dow Jones forecast of 125,000 for the month but less than the downwardly revised 147,000 in April.<\/p>\n The\u00a0Dow Jones Industrial Average<\/a>\u00a0popped 443.13 points, or 1.05%, to close at 42,762.87. The blue-chip index was up more than 600 points at its highs of the session.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, the the\u00a0broad-based S&P 500<\/a>\u00a0also gained 1.03% \u2014 surpassing the 6,000 level for the first time since late February \u2014 and settling at 6,000.36, while the\u00a0Nasdaq Composite<\/a>\u00a0rallied 1.20%, to end at 19,529.95.<\/p>\n \u2014 CNBC’s Sean Conlon and Jesse Pound contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China Shenzhen Real444 | E+ | Getty Images Asian markets climbed Monday as investors awaited trade talks between…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169041,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3091],"tags":[21351,15193,186,21344,21128,21350,4959,51,3085,7989,10294,4750,21346,21342,21347,2441,3742,21349,8572,16678,3741,21348,10741,21341,16,15,21345,2726,21343],"class_list":{"0":"post-169040","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-markets","8":"tag-arm-holdings-plc","9":"tag-asia-economy","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-australian-dollar-us-dollar-fx-spot-rate","12":"tag-boeing-co","13":"tag-breaking-news-asia","14":"tag-breaking-news-markets","15":"tag-business","16":"tag-business-news","17":"tag-dow-jones-industrial-average","18":"tag-dxy-us-dollar-currency-index","19":"tag-economic-events","20":"tag-hang-seng-index","21":"tag-ice-brent-crude-apr23","22":"tag-kospi-index","23":"tag-markets","24":"tag-nasdaq-composite","25":"tag-nikkei-225-index","26":"tag-nvidia-corp","27":"tag-prices","28":"tag-sp-500-index","29":"tag-sp-asx-200","30":"tag-shanghai","31":"tag-shenzhen-component-index","32":"tag-uk","33":"tag-united-kingdom","34":"tag-usd-jpy","35":"tag-world-markets","36":"tag-wti-crude-mar23"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}