Mainland China A-share's three major indices slipped into negative territory; the ChiNext index earlier gained as much as 1.6%.

AP: Pakistani security forces on Sunday carried out an intelligence-led ground operation along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, striking militant hideouts and killing 29 fighters, officials said. Authorities said the action responded to a series of militant attacks nationwide. A day earlier, gunmen with explosives attacked the Pakistan Rangers' regional headquarters in Karachi, killing three soldiers; security forces killed three attackers and detained another, whom the military said was an injured Afghan national. A splinter faction of the Pakistan Taliban calling itself the Free Men Party claimed responsibility for the Karachi attack.

港股汽車股盤初走強，蔚來-SW(09866.HK)漲超3%，小鵬集團(09868.HK)漲超2%，吉利汽車(00175.HK)、零跑汽車(09863.HK)等跟漲。