Investing.com- Most Asian stocks fell on Monday after US President Donald Trump’s imposition of commercial tariffs on Colombia has destroyed the desire to risk with the possibility of more of these moves.
Chinese markets were mixed, as investors bought some local technology names due to optimism about Deepseek R1 – a new artificial intelligence model that could disrupt development in this sector.
But more gains in China were hindered by the data of the more expected purchasing managers index, which highlighted the continuous decline in the Chinese economy.
Regional markets have taken weak progress from Wall Street, with the decrease in the futures index of the American stock index in Asian Trade, where speculative on Deepseek affected major technology stocks, especially NVIDIA (Nasdaq :). Robinhood data showed that the stock decreased by more than 5 % in the 24 -hour markets.
Chinese technology is rising due to the noise of Deepseek, but the indicators of the purchasing managers
The Hong Kong Index was exceptional among its Asian counterparts on Monday, as it rose 0.6% thanks to the gains of heavy internet shares.
Majors Bido (Nasdaq 🙂 Inc (hk 🙂 and alibaba Group Holding Ltd (hk 🙂 and Tencent Holdings Ltd (hk 🙂 rose between 0.9% and 3.5%.
The morale has been strengthened towards Chinese internet shares by launching Deepseek R1, a large -sized model claiming to compete with offers from Openai and Meta (Nasdaq 🙂 with a simple part of the cost.
LLM has strengthened hopes that Chinese companies can provide competitive artificial intelligence products despite the inability to reach advanced artificial intelligence technology from major companies such as NVIDIA.
The Great Chinese Freedom Industry stocks – such as Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp (HK 🙂 and Sunny Optical Technology Group Co Ltd (HK 🙂 last week due to this idea, despite its decrease in some profit makers on Monday.
China’s indicators and its indicators were less optimistic, as they only rose marginal. The morale towards the broader Chinese market was affected by the data of the most expected purchasing managers index for the month of January, which showed an unexpected contraction in the activity and a sharp slowdown in growth.
Reading indicated that the Chinese economy was suffering despite the recent supportive measures from Beijing, and that the government is likely to have to provide more support. Also, the possibility of raising American commercial tariffs does not herald the good for China.
The Chinese markets will be closed on the occasion of the new lunar holiday that will last for a week starting from Tuesday.
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The wider Asian markets fell on Monday, although regional trading volumes were weak before several regional holidays this week. Outside China, the markets in Singapore, South Korea and Hong Kong will also be closed this week.
The desire to risk was shaken by Trump’s 25% commercial definitions on Colombia, which raised fears that he may also implement his threats to impose customs definitions against Canada, Mexico and China.
The Japan index decreased by 0.4%, while it increased by 0.5%.
The Singapore Index decreased by 0.3%, while the South Korea index settled.
India index referred to a weak opening, as local markets face many major events this week, including major profits.
The Australian markets were closed to spend a vacation.
The broader market concentration is also focused on this week, as it is widely expected that the central bank will keep the interest rates fixed.
