BANGKOK — World shares were mixed on Monday, the day before U.S. President Donald Trump’s deadline for imposing higher tariffs on goods imported from China.
Oil prices extended declines that began last week on expectations for a possible breakthrough in the Ukraine conflict from Trump’s planned meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday in Alaska. Increases in output by the OPEC plus countries have also pulled prices lower on expectations of higher supplies.
In early European trading, Germany’s DAX edged 0.1% lower to 24,127.50, while the CAC 40 in Paris shed 0.2% to 7,728.58. Britain’s FTSE 100 gained 0.2% to 9,114.27.
The future for the S&P 500 was up 0.1% while that for the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 0.2%.
The Hang Seng in Hong Kong edged 0.2% higher to 24,906.81, while the Shanghai Composite index gained 0.3% to 3,647.55.
Triple digit tariffs threatened by Trump and by Beijing were paused for 90 days in May to allow time for trade talks.
Tuesday is the deadline for extending that truce. The last round of negotiations, held last month in Stockholm, ended without a clear word from Trump on whether the deadline would be extended for another 90 days.
Taiwan’s Taiex gained 0.5%, helped by a 0.4% climb for TSMC, the world’s largest contract manufacturer of computer chips. Analysts said the company’s shares are seen as a proxy for big U.S. semiconductor makers like Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices.
Unconfirmed reports said those companies had agreed to pay the U.S. government a 15% share of their revenues from sales to China of their chips used for artificial intelligence. The Trump administration recently relaxed restrictions on sales of some chips to China. In pre-market trading early Monday, Nvidia’s shares were down 0.6% while AMD’s lost 1.7%.
Elsewhere in Asia, Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 rose 0.3% to 8,844.80, while the Kospi in South Korea slipped 0.1% to 3,206.77.
Markets in Japan and Thailand were closed for holidays.
On Friday, the S&P 500 rose 0.8% and the Dow industrials gained 0.5%. The Nasdaq composite added 1% to the record it set a day earlier.
Technology companies, with their hefty stock values, did much of the heavy lifting for the market. Nvidia rose 1.1% and Apple gained 4.2%.
Gilead Sciences jumped 8.3% for one of the market’s biggest gains after reporting financial results that easily beat analysts’ forecasts, while also raising its earnings forecast for the year. Expedia Group rose 4.1% after also reporting…
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