China stocks reopened on an upbeat note on Monday after a week-long holiday, with the main indexes rising the most in two months, but gains were capped by a sell-off in property shares on curbs imposed in more cities to cool surging home prices.
China's blue-chip CSI300 index rose 1.2 percent to 3,293.87 points, while the Shanghai Composite Index gained 1.4 percent to 3,048.14 points.
Investors and traders in Asia indicated on Monday they are mostly increasing their bets on Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton winning the U.S. presidential race after the second of three debates with Republican party nominee Donald Trump.
MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan edged up around 0.1 percent by mid-afternoon in Singapore on Monday, while Wall Street index futures were little changed after Clinton exchanged barbs with Republican party nominee Donald Trump in the televised event, which was shown live across trading rooms during Asia's morning.
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