An employee works on the production line of power batteries and box chassis for new energy vehicles at a workshop on July 11, 2025 in Huaibei, Anhui Province of China.<\/p>\n
Li Xin | Visual China Group | Getty Images<\/p>\n
Asia-Pacific markets traded mixed Monday, after Wall Street saw all three U.S. major indexes climb Friday stateside.<\/p>\n
Investors in Asia are assessing manufacturing activity figures out from China after RatingDog published its purchasing managers index for October.<\/p>\n
China’s manufacturing activity slowed to 50.6, missing the 50.9 expected by economists polled by Reuters and lower than September’s 51.2.<\/p>\n
The official PMI numbers<\/a> released Friday by the National Bureau of Statistics showed that China’s manufacturing activity in October<\/a> shrunk to its lowest level in six months, coming in at 49.0.<\/p>\n Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index<\/a> rose 0.33%, while mainland China’s CSI 300 dipped 0.62%.<\/p>\n South Korea’s Kospi<\/a> was up 2.16%, leading gains in Asia and touching a new intraday high, while the small-cap Kosdaq gained 1.18%.<\/p>\n Australia’s\u00a0S&P\/ASX 200<\/a> was 0.24% down.<\/p>\n The country’s central bank starts its two-day monetary policy meeting today, with economists expecting a hold from the Reserve Bank of Australia after inflation readings came in hotter than expected for the third quarter.<\/p>\n Japan’s markets are closed for a public holiday.<\/p>\n On Friday in the U.S., the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite<\/a> advanced 0.61% at 23,724.96, while the S&P 500 gained 0.26% to reach 6,840.20. The\u00a0Dow Jones Industrial Average<\/a>\u00a0closed marginally higher at 47,562.87.<\/p>\n \u2014CNBC’s Sean Conlon and Pia Singh contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An employee works on the production line of power batteries and box chassis for new energy vehicles at…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":351684,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8000,7998,133,64,81,7994,7995,135,143,7997,145,67,132,68,7999],"class_list":{"0":"post-351683","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-asia-economy","9":"tag-breaking-news-asia","10":"tag-breaking-news-markets","11":"tag-business","12":"tag-business-news","13":"tag-hang-seng-index","14":"tag-kospi-index","15":"tag-markets","16":"tag-nasdaq-composite","17":"tag-nikkei-225-index","18":"tag-sp-500-index","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-world-markets"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115483564122721078","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}