Stocks in Asia are set for a muted opening after U.S. shares drifted as investors digested mixed corporate earnings and economic data.
Contracts for equity benchmarks in Japan advanced, while those in Australia also climbed although the country’s equity market will be shut Tuesday for a holiday.
That extended to seven the number of trading days when the two indexes have both moved less than 1%.
At 5:40 a.m., the Singapore-traded SGX Nifty, an early indicator of the Nifty 50 Index’s performance in India, was up 0.22% at 17,798.
The Indian rupee strengthened against the U.S. dollar for a third day, even as domestic equities surged and crude prices softened.
Domestic institutional investors were buyers for the third straight day and mopped up stocks worth Rs 1,177.2 crore.

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