• European bourses open lower on Monday morning after preliminary coalition talks in Germany collapsed.
The pan-European Stoxx 600 was 0.01 percent lower with sectors moving in different directions.
• Asian shares pulled back on Monday, with investor sentiment hurt by a retreat on Wall Street and a slide in Chinese stocks, while the euro skidded after German coalition talks hit an impasse.
MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan .MIAPJ0000PUS was off its session lows but still down 0.1 percent.
“It’s year-end season, so people have more incentive to take profits,” said Kyoya Okazawa, Hong Kong-based head of institutional clients, APAC at BNP Paribas Securities.
• Japan’s Nikkei share average fell on Monday amid losses on Wall Street and a stronger yen, while semiconductor equipment manufacturers and financial stocks underperformed.
The Nikkei ended 0.6 percent lower at 22,261.76 points.
· China stocks reversed early losses to end higher on Monday, aided by a rebound in banking shares even after Beijing set sweeping new guidelines to regulate asset management products.
The blue-chip CSI300 index dropped as much as 1.5 percent in early trade but closed up 0.6 percent at 4,143.83 points, while the Shanghai Composite Index ended0.3 percent higher at 3,392.40.
· Hong Kong stocks rose slightly on Monday, despite pressure from a retreat on Wall Street amid tax reform uncertainty.
The Hang Seng index rose 0.2 percent, to 29,260.31 points, and the China Enterprises Index lost 0.6 percent, to 11,538.28 points.
Reference: Reuters,CNBC