real weakness in the chinese market -- let's get to haidi lun. haidi: that's right.rom pretty bad to really terrible for the chinese markets. when i last spoke to you, shanghai closed by 6.4%, dropping the most in more than a month. this on account of that spike in overnight lending. this comes at a time when open market operations are draining from the market following a chinese new year, when they added so much into the market. banks are being forced to put aside more cash, which is weighing on equities. that's how china is feeling. hong kong is doing slightly better, still down 1.5%. elsewhere, a pretty mixed picture. 1%,ey closing by 1/10 of and in tokyo, the nikkei 225 seeing a good rally. there was one major loser when it comes to the japanese market. and you guys will cover it in greater detail, but investors want it back into trading after that regulatory announcement; that plunged. pointdown by 22% at one before recouping some of those losses, then closing down by 14 $%. it's a $6.2 billion offer that has been accepted, and is still subject to regulatory app

the fray later, haidi lun is here to take a look at what to expect. think we are optimistic, we have futures when he to a higher open, at least outside of china. this is largely on accounts of the yen calming down. started to play out in the final -- friday session. we are seeing the yen declined so far. as such we are seeing a slight uptick when it comes to futures for japanese stocks. let's check in on the aussie stocks. australian and new zealand markets are turning to trickle in. we are looking at not much movement for the aussie dollar. but the -- the index was down 5% last week. equities japanese which were the worst performer. japanese stocks are down the most in seven years. that was largely due to the and. -- due to the yen. chances are we will see the markets in terms of japanese markets come down. in terms of other markets trading around the region, all eyes are on china. in asia they had the last week since 2012. it was down by about 7% over the past week alone. certainly regionally tracking that bear market we saw global stocks falling la

haidi lun is standing by for us sony, the move in sony's shares are noticeable overnight getting a little bit of a boost .rom a certain secret agent >> james bond has been a huge favor. minute to that in just a in terms of this astronomical search that we did see today but you talk about diverted picture against people can go look at a big etcher things are looking pretty good. the asia-pacific index is on track for a fourth day of gains. this is largely driven by markets in japan as well as salt we are seeing a little bit of strength coming through from emerging markets and southeast asia. but really it is a little bit of a sugar high. tom the decision to go there go to negative rates on friday. that's really still playing out across the region lifting risk appetite as was seen across other markets. the naked two to five closing up by 2%. the topics about the same with had that 3% bounce on friday. extending those gains. south korean shares managed to close up the distance. some horrible expert numbers falling at the steepest level since august 2009. so south korea is very much that cana

haidi lun is standing by in hong kong. it has been a fretful sort of day.nd thent of the gates gave back some of those gains. one researcher this morning saying, if there has been any trend in the way that the markets have been going in 2016, it has been that there has been no trend at all. japanese and south korean shares closing it just a few higher. same story we have been seeing. yen has gone up, gold has gone up. yuan, we setting the guess that about six weeks. that really has cast into doubt the sort of economic outlook of china and the stability of the currency. shanghai is down by 1.7%. mainland markets yesterday closing at their highest in over a month. we did see energy stocks getting sold off again. having said that, we have seen some quite nice gains. it has been a big day in terms of earnings. one bright stock was gaming -- gamington it stocks listed in hong kong. jpmorgan saying that revenue numbers from the cow are expected to be upbeat for the first time in quite some time. wynn macau up by 1%. jakarta under fire again. u.s. investigators an