BANGKOK—World shares were mostly higher Monday after a strong close on Wall Street last week, though the latest manufacturing surveys showed weakening factory activity in Asia’s two biggest economies: China and Japan.
Germany’s DAX gained 0.3 percent to 13,522,83 while the CAC 40 in Paris added 0.4 percent to 6,473.00. Britain’s FTSE 100 climbed 0.4 percent to 7,455.55.
The futures for the S&P 500 and the Dow industrials were 0.2 percent lower. On Friday, Wall Street closed out its best month since November 2020. The S&P 500 index, a benchmark for many stock funds, rose 1.4 percent. It finished 9.1 percent higher for July.
In Asian trading, Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 index gained 0.7 percent to 27,993.35 while the Shanghai Composite index edged 0.2 percent higher, to 3,259.96. In Sydney, the S&P/ASX 200 rose 0.7 percent to 6,993.00. The Kospi in Seoul ended nearly unchanged at 2,452.25 and Hong Kong’s Hang Seng edged less than 0.1 percent higher to 20,163.08….