Monday’s World Stock Markets: Asia-Pacific
#AsiaPacific#Australia#Japan #China#world#stocks
China shares finished higher Monday, rebounding from their biggest weekly decliner in a yr as investors bought the dip.
The Shanghai Composite index ended up 1.21% at 3,551.40. The blue-chip CSI300 index was up 1.54%.
Japan’s TOPIX Index Monday rose the most in 7 months, as a pause in sell-offs in US Treasuries boosted the tech-heavy NAS Comp index and lifted domestic shares of chipmakers.
The TOPIX Index spiked 2.04% at 1,894.94, while the the Nikkei share average advanced 2.41% at 29,663.50, the biggest gainer since 29 December 2020.
Australian shares marked their best session in 2 months Monday, as upbeat economic data strengthened recovery hopes, while the central bank increasing the size of its daily quantitative easing program also aided Bullish sentiment.
The S&P/ASX 200 index rose 1.7% to close at 6,789.6 in a solid start to March, New Zealand’s benchmark S&P/NZX 50 index rose 0.6% to finish the session at 12,301.81.
Asia-Pacific Indexes
Data as of 1 Mar 2021. All quotes delayed at least 15 minutes.
Symb
Index
Time
Last
Chg
Chg %
.TRXFLDJPP
Thomson Reuters Equity Japan Index
2:43am EST
166.61
+3.22
+1.97%
.TRXFLDHKP
Thomson Reuters Equity HK Index
3:42am EST
363.31
+8.38
+2.36%
.TRXFLDINP
Thomson Reuters Equity India Index
3:42am EST
1,731.34
+24.95
+1.46%
.N225
Nikkei Stock Average 225
1:15am EST
29,663.50
+697.49
+2.41%
.HSI
Hang Seng Index
3:08am EST
29,452.57
+472.36
+1.63%
.AORD
ASX All Ordinaries Index
12:50am EST
7,042.70
+102.10
+1.47%
.KS11
KOSPI Index
26 Feb 2021
3,012.95
-86.74
-2.80%
.SETI
SET Composite Index
3:59am EST
1,502.70
+5.92
+0.40%
.JKSE
Jakarta Composite
3:14am EST
6,338.51
+96.72
+1.55%
.PSI
PSE Composite Index
28 Feb 2021
6,872.97
+78.11
+1.15%
.SSEC
Shanghai Composite Index
2:59am EST
3,551.40
+42.32
+1.21%
.BSESN
S&P BSE Sensex
3:58am EST
49,763.64
+663.65
+1.35%
.FTFBMKLCI
FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI
28 Feb 2021
1,567.14
-10.61
-0.67%
.HNX30
HNX 30 Index
25 Feb 2021
365.43
+1.64
+0.45%
Have a healthy week, Keep the Faith!
USA vs China: The AI and Quantum Scorecard
The US still leads AI models and chips by a whisker; China leads power and open-weight models outright. Shayne Heffernan scores the four races that will decide the decade.
USA vs China: The Quantum Computing Race
The U.S. still leads quantum computing, but China has closed the gap fast — on hardware scale, supply-chain self-reliance and quantum networking. A category-by-category scorecard as of June 2026.
Larry Fink Called It. CME Just Made It Real. The Compute Futures Market Has Arrived
The Quantum-AI Convergence Is Real. The Quantum Stocks Aren't the Trade.
Every story, signed and delivered.
Subscribe to the kxco channel and get the headline, the AI-written key takeaways, and the chain-anchor link the moment we publish. Audio versions and per-ticker subscriptions arrive in the next iteration.