Hong Kong stocks fall 2% in Asia session; China keeps benchmark lending rates on hold - CNBC

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A antheral looks astatine his smartphone arsenic helium walks past the People's Bank of China gathering connected May 20, 2022 successful Beijing.

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Shares successful the Asia-Pacific traded mostly little connected Monday arsenic China's cardinal slope kept its benchmark lending rates, oregon indebtedness premier rates, connected clasp in enactment with expectations.

The Hang Seng index successful Hong Kong fell 2.6%, starring losses successful the wider region. In mainland China, the Shanghai Composite fell 0.62% and the Shenzhen Component also fell 1%.

The Nikkei 225 successful Japan and the Topix were conscionable supra the level line. In Australia, the S&P/ASX 200 was somewhat lower. South Korea's Kospi dropped 1.1%. The MSCI's broadest scale of Asia-Pacific shares extracurricular Japan was down 1.2%.

Over the weekend, Malaysia's predetermination produced a hung parliament, and parties are trying to triumph enactment from different blocs to signifier the government. Later this week, Baidu volition study net and Singapore volition merchandise ostentation data.

China keeps its indebtedness premier rates connected clasp arsenic expected

China near its benchmark lending complaint unchanged for a 3rd period successful a row, according to an announcement from the People's Bank of China.

The one-year indebtedness premier complaint is dependable astatine 3.65%, and the five-year complaint is besides connected clasp astatine 4.3%, the announcement said.

— Abigail Ng

South Korea saw exports driblet further successful archetypal 20 days of November

South Korea's exports for the archetypal 20 days of November fell 16.7% connected an annualized basis, with request from China lagging, according to data from the customs agency.

The slump successful exports is simply a crisp driblet from the 5.5% autumn seen successful October compared to the aforesaid play a twelvemonth ago.

Imports besides dropped 5.5% for the archetypal 20 days of November, resulting successful a flimsy betterment successful the commercialized shortage — $4.4 cardinal for the period, compared with a shortage of $4.9 cardinal reported successful October.

The state has recorded a full of $40 cardinal successful commercialized shortage year-to-date, statistic from the bureau showed.

— Jihye Lee

CNBC Pro: Morgan Stanley's Mike Wilson predicts the S&P 500's bottom, calls it a 'terrific buying opportunity'

Morgan Stanley's Chief U.S. Equity Strategist Mike Wilson says we're successful the "final stages" of the carnivore market, but the concern volition stay challenging for a portion longer.

He predicts erstwhile — and astatine what level — the S&P 500 volition deed a "new low."

CNBC Pro subscribers tin work much here.

— Weizhen Tan

China is expected to clasp its benchmark lending rates steady, Reuters canvass says

China's cardinal slope is expected to support its one-year and five-year indebtedness premier rates connected hold, according to analysts polled by Reuters.

The one-year complaint presently stands astatine 3.65%, and the five-year LPR is astatine 4.3%.

The People's Bank of China past chopped some rates successful August.

China's offshore yuan was weaker astatine 7.1376 against the U.S. dollar up of the determination aboriginal Monday.

— Abigail Ng

CNBC Pro: Strategist says Chinese tech stocks, similar Alibaba, are 'deeply undervalued'

This year's 30% diminution successful the worth of Chinese Big Tech stocks, specified arsenic Alibaba, has made them "incredibly cheap," according to concern slope China Renaissance.

Its caput of equities, Andrew Maynard, not lone believes that the banal marketplace appears to person bottomed, but besides that investors whitethorn miss retired connected a rally if they stay underweight connected China.

"Without a shadiness of a doubt, being underweight China is going to outgo you going forward," Maynard said.

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— Ganesh Rao

Markets are watching for much clues connected Fed hikes and the system successful the week ahead

Investors whitethorn beryllium a spot much cautious successful the week ahead, with stocks seeking absorption successful quiescent trading and the enslaved market's warnings astir recession getting louder.

The Thanksgiving vacation connected Thursday should mean markets volition apt beryllium quiescent Wednesday and Friday. Traders volition beryllium monitoring reports connected Black Friday vacation buying for feedback connected the consumer.

"It's truly a week wherever information dependence is the cardinal phrase," said Julian Emanuel, elder managing manager astatine Evercore ISI. "The bias [for stocks] is higher unless information continues to deteriorate and the Fed stays connected its hawkish slant... which has intelligibly been reinforced successful the past 48 hours."

Check retired our afloat heavy dive connected what to expect successful the week up here.

— Patti Domm, Tanaya Macheel

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