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.
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Asia-Pacific markets mostly climbed Monday, after Wall Street saw all three U.S. major indexes climb Friday stateside.
Investors in Asia are assessing manufacturing activity figures out from China after RatingDog published its purchasing managers index for October.
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.
The official PMI numbers released Friday by the National Bureau of Statistics showed that China’s manufacturing activity in October shrunk to its lowest level in six months, coming in at 49.0.
Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index rose 0.97% and closed at 26,158.36, snapping a three-day losing streak, while mainland China’s CSI 300 reversed losses and climbed 0.27%, ending the day at 4,653.4.
South Korea’s Kospi rose 2.78% to close at a new high of 4,221.87, and posting its largest one-day gain since June. Meanwhile, the small-cap Kosdaq gained 1.57% to end at 914.55.
India’s Nifty 50 was up 0.14% and the Sensex was trading close to the flatline.
Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 was up 0.15%, ending at 8,894.8.
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.
Japan’s markets are closed for a public holiday.
On Friday in the U.S., the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite advanced 0.61% at 23,724.96, while the S&P 500 gained 0.26% to reach 6,840.20. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed marginally higher at 47,562.87.
—CNBC’s Sean Conlon and Pia Singh contributed to this report.