The final trading week of the first half of the year gets underway on Monday, with Asia 's scorecard looking reasonably positive from an equity perspective, mixed through a currency and bond lens, and more bleak from a Chinese market angle.
The regional calendar on Monday also includes the latest trade figures from New Zealand, inflation from Singapore, and unemployment and industrial production from Taiwan. Japanese stocks are up around 15% year to date, and the MSCI Asia ex-Japan, India's Sensex and South Korea's Kospi are all up around 7%.The Shanghai Composite is barely in positive territory for the year, has lost 5% in the last month, and is on its worst weekly losing streak in six years.
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