Indexes across the region recovered more of their Monday losses as an air of calm returned to trading floors

Stocks in Japan rebounded dramatically on Tuesday, enjoying the biggest one-day percentage rise since October 2008, while other markets in Asia also got a lift

The currency’s slide followed in the wake of an Asia-wide selloff after a poor US jobs report spurred worries of foreign outflows

The Nikkei in Japan suffers its biggest ever one-day loss, plummeting by a whopping 13%, while Taiwanese and Korean shares both sank by more than 8%.

Japan’s benchmark index endured a bruising day, seeing its biggest daily percentage fall in more than four years

China’s manufacturing activity shrank for the first time in nine months in July while Japan’s currency peaked at a four-month high

Microsoft, Apple, Amazon and Facebook-parent Meta Platforms report this week while central banks in the US, UK and Japan also meet

Share indexes across the region retreated as confidence in Big Tech’s fortunes waned off the back of some tame earnings posts

Big Tech anxieties, China’s wayward economy, Donald’s Trump’s possible return and currency shifts all weighed on sentiment

Foreign investor flows into Asian bonds also dropped 34% in the first six months of the year, data showed

The absence of concrete stimulus promises out of China’s key leadership summit added to an air of pessimism across the region’s bourses

The attempt on Donald Trump’s life has shortened the odds on a Republican US election victory, increasing the risk of a new China-US trade war