Individual stock markets in the Asia-Pacific region have developed. The Nikkei, which has surged over the past few days, rose nearly 0.9 per cent and reached a five-month high of 30048. The Prev index rose 1.5 per cent to more than half a year's high, and Shenzhen rose nearly 1.1 per cent to close at 14702. Hong Kong stocks rose twice in a row, today in Tencent (00700.HK) / Geely (00175.HK) / Sands (01928.HK) / benefiting the Hong Kong Government plans to relax entry restrictions Wharf property (01997.HK) / China Merchants Bank (03968.HK) / Haidilao International Holding (06862.HK) / Meituan (03690.HK) / Li Ning Co. Ltd. (02331.HK) rose more than 2% 7%, the latter's strongest breaking peak was driven by a record high of 108.2 yuan, which rose 295 points or 1.1% to close at 26353. An increase of 190 points or 0.7% Indian and Philippine stocks rose 0.4%, 0.5%, while the Mumbai index repeatedly reached a record high of 58553. On the contrary, the stocks of Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand, Taiwan and South Korea are soft.

Us stock futures rose slightly over and over again. Major European stock markets reversed yesterday's significant rally and fell back across the board in the early days, with the UK's FTSE 100th giving up 0.3 per cent to 7164. German DAX vomited 0.3% to 15884, Italian FTSE MIB 0.2% to 26199, pan-European 600 0.2% to 474.28, French CAC 0.2% to 6728, and Spain IBEX 35 0.2% to 8866.