Stock markets mostly rose Monday after conciliatory comments from US President Donald Trump at the weekend eased worries about China-US trade tensions.

Tokyo stocks surged more than three percent to a record after Japan’s ruling party said it was set to sign a new coalition deal.

The deal, signed on Monday, paves the way for Sanae Takaichi to become prime minister, raising hopes for an end to the country’s political turmoil.

Most markets started the week on the front foot with “fears around the US-China trade spat abating for the time being”, said Joshua Mahony, chief market analyst at Scope Markets.

A global outage that hit Amazon’s cloud services for several hours on Monday, affecting numerous online services for the US tech giant and numerous other companies and organisations, appea

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