Shares were mostly higher Monday in Asia after Wall Street broke its three-day losing streak, trimming its losses for last week.

China factory data are due out on Tuesday and a quarterly business sentiment survey by the Bank of Japan comes on Wednesday.

The next big event for Wall Street could be a looming shutdown of the U.S. government, with a deadline set for this week. But such political impasses have had limited impact on the market before.

U.S. jobs data also will be in the spotlight.

U.S. futures edged higher early Monday and oil prices fell.

Tokyo’s Nikkei was the regional outlier, giving up 1% to 44,892.52.

Chinese markets advanced, with the Hang Seng in Hong Kong adding 1.5% to 26,518.03, while the Shanghai Composite index gained 0.1% to 3,832.65.

Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 r

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