[MARKET UPDATE] Asia-Pac stocks begin negative following the recent geopolitical escalation in the Middle East and last Friday's tech losses on Wall St, while money markets price in a Fed rate hike this year following strong jobs data

Workers are to escalate strike at Inpex (1605 JT) Ichthy's LNG sites after talks fail with stoppages to increase to eight hours daily, while union accuses Co. of reneging on previous bargaining terms

PBoC is expected to set USD/CNY mid-point at 6.7950 (prev. 6.8157)

[MARKET UPDATE] Asia-Pac stocks begin negative following the recent geopolitical escalation in the Middle East and last Friday's tech losses on Wall St, while money markets price in a Fed rate hike this year following strong jobs data

Korea Exchange triggers circuit breakers on KOSPI after index falls 8% with trading halted for 20 minutes, while it activates sidecar on Kosdaq after Kosdaq 150 futures fell 6% with programme trading halted for 5 minutes

NVIDIA (NVDA) CEO Huang says SK is the largest memory partner and we made a very significant and long-term partnership with SK, adds no country is better prepared for robotics than Korea