Japan's Nikkei hit a one-month low while tech stocks dragged on Hong Kong’s Hang Seng with global growth worries weighing on sentiment

Tensions over the continuing Ukraine conflict, a slump in factory output in Japan and fears there’ll be no let-up in the Fed’s war on inflation all weighed on sentiment

Nikkei, Hang Seng and China’s mainland indexes all advanced but traders were cautious ahead of the release of key US and global economic data this week

Investors continued to be distracted by the US Fed’s rate hike threats while news on a new BOJ chief unsettled traders in Tokyo

Investors were in downbeat mood at the prospect of a long battle with inflation while China’s markets were buoyed by recovery hopes

Japan’s Nikkei was dragged down by poor financial results for Nintendo and SoftBank while China’s markets were weighed down by Sino-US tensions

Japan’s Nikkei slipped while Hong Kong and China scraped together some gains but there was an air of ‘wait-and-see’ ahead of the US Fed chief’s speech

Hopes of a slowdown in central bank tightening were dashed by Friday’s upbeat US payroll numbers, weighing on Asian investor sentiment on Monday

Doubts over China’s recovery swayed investor sentiment while the looming release of US payroll data weighed too

News that US Fed chair Jerome Powell sees inflation easing off buoyed the region’s markets though China recovery doubts weighed in Hong Kong

Investors were lifted by positive factory data out of China but remained distracted by worries over which way the US Fed will jump next in its fight with inflation

Investors cashed in on Tuesday after a recent rally as markets readied for more interest rate rises in the US