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STOCKS: The major Asia-Pac equity markets benefitted from an uptick in Chinese

equities, as technical support in the Shanghai Comp seems to have held, for now.

- Risk seemingly benefitted from a WSJ piece noting that "U.S. off'ls said

Monday they would grant a handful of temporary exceptions to an export blacklist

against Huawei Technologies Co., giving some suppliers and customers of China's

telecom giant a 90-day reprieve from tough trade penalties...The reprieve comes

hours after Alphabet Inc.'s Google unit signalled plans to cut access to some of

its most-popular features on new Huawei smartphones. The move late Monday put a

hold on those plans, according to a person familiar with the matter." Rare

minerals related names also benefitted from President Xi visiting a rare earth

facility on Monday.

- The potential for near-term RBA easing, in addition to proposals for looser

mortgage lending standards supported Australian financials.

- Nikkei 225 unch., Hang Seng +0.4%, CSI 300 +1.7%, ASX 200 unch.

- S&P 500 futures +13, DJIA futures +105, NASDAQ 100 +51.