Asian stocks Plunged on Monday

Media IN BEIJING, July 08, 2019, SPA

The Shanghai Composite Index fell 2.5% to 2,936.97 and Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 lost 1% to 21,520.70.

Hong Kong’s Hang Seng retreated 1.6% to 28,301.77 and Seoul’s Kospi declined 1.8% to 2,072.60.
Australia’s S&P-ASX 200 gave up 1% to 6,682.60 and India’s Sensex was down 1.1% at 39,079.63. New Zealand and Southeast Asian markets also declined.
Benchmark U.S. crude lost 7 cents to $57.58 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract advanced 17 cents on Friday to close at $57.51. Brent crude, used to price international oils, shed 5 cent to $64.28. It rose 93 cents the previous session to $64.23.
The dollar declined to 108.40 yen from Friday’s 108.47 yen. The euro was unchanged at $1.1225.