Asian markets settled mostly higher in thin trade on Monday, with Japanese markets closing for the Mountain Day holiday. Meanwhile, investors looked ahead to a slew of US and Chinese economic data and the Donald Trump-Vladimir Putin meeting on August 15 in Alaska for directional cues. Chinese and Hong Kong shares rose as investors focused on whether the US-China trade truce deadline would be extended, while shrugging off data that highlighted persistent deflationary pressures in the world's second-largest economy.
| Asian Indices | Last Trade | Change in Points | Change in % |
| Shanghai Composite | 3,647.55 | 12.42 | 0.34 |
| Hang Seng | 24,906.81 | 47.99 | 0.19 |
| Jakarta Composite | 7,605.92 | 72.53 | 0.96 |
| KLSE Composite | 1,563.24 | 6.26 | 0.40 |
| Nikkei 225 | -- | -- | -- |
| Straits Times | 4,232.78 | -7.05 | -0.17 |
| KOSPI Composite | 3,206.77 | -3.24 | -0.10 |
| Taiwan Weighted | 24,135.50 | 114.24 | 0.47 |
