Asian Stock Markets Started The Week Negatively

Asian stock markets started with a sales-weighted course on the first trading day of the new week.

Asian stock markets started the week negatively. Indices in the Asia Pacific Region made a sales-weighted start to the week. Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index fell more than 1 percent, while China's main decision dropped sharply in the Shenzen and Shanghai Composite Indices. In the morning session, Alibaba stocks fell more than 6 percent in Hong Kong. China recently fined e-commerce giant Alibaba for violating the antitrust law. The amount of the penalty was recorded as 2.8 billion dollars. There was a decrease in Japan's Nikkei 225 and Topix Indices. The South Korean Kospi Index followed a negative course, close to the horizontal. Australia's S&P/ASX 200 Index also dropped on Monday, while the MSCI Asia Pacific Index fell about 1 percent.