china is set to lead asian stocks higher on optimism of more economic stimulus to come from beijing while wall street markets started the week with gains ahead of key central bank rate decisions futures in japan and australia pointed to solid rises in early tuesday trading an index of uslisted chinese shares on monday had its biggest oneday gain in almost six months as the nation’s top leaders used a crucial politburo meeting to flag more aid for the troubled real estate sector alongside pledges to boost consumption and resolve local government debt while the communist party’s top decisionmaking body fell short of announcing largescale stimulus its vow to provide a boost to the slowing economy helped give bullish momentum for equity traders the dow jones industrial average rose for an 11th straight day its longest winning run since 2017 the sp 500 traded near 4550 while the nasdaq 100 underperformed after a “special rebalance” that took effect monday among the corporate highlights tesla inc advanced after disclosing strong sales outside the us and china apple inc gained as bloomberg news reported the company is keeping its iphone shipments steady despite the 2023 turmoil key federal reserve and european central bank’s gatherings this week will be closely watched for signs policymakers may be reaching the end of the cycle of aggressive policy tightening there were fresh reminders about the negative recessionary affects of continuous rate hikes with disappointing data from both the us and euroarea aside from the economic picture global companies with a combined 27 trillion in value were set to report results including giants microsoft corp lvmh and samsung electronics co “the market is pretty well signaling another 25basis point rate hike is on the cards” said george mateyo chief investment officer at key private bank “people are probably looking past the announcement itself and then trying to glean some read in terms of what happens later this year” meanwhile twoyear us bond rates climbed as an auction drew the highest yield since 2007 the dollar was little changed bitcoin briefly fell below 29000 west texas intermediate crude topped 78 a barrel wheat and corn gained as russia attacked one of ukraine’s biggest danube river ports amc entertainment holdings inc climbed as a surprise court ruling friday scuttled a stock conversion plan the cinema chain has now revised chevron corp rose on solid earnings the delayed impact of aggressive interestrate hikes by global central banks dwindling consumer savings and a “deeply troubling” geopolitical backdrop are poised to spur fresh market declines and renewed volatility  according to jpmorgan chase  co strategist marko kolanovic kolanovic also noted that the stockprice reaction to earnings reports is expected to be muted as the market was strong coming into the secondquarter reporting season the outlook for the world’s largest economy will likely hinge on the fed’s willingness to tolerate inflation markedly higher than it would prefer after taking a break from tightening last month chair jerome powell and his colleagues look locked in to raising interest rates by a quarter percentage point on wednesday the big question facing policymakers and financial markets at this stage is what comes next whether the fed gives investors a reason to sell or there’s a big earnings disappointment this week the market is ripe for a decline into the fall according to paul nolte at murphy  sylvest wealth management “for now that decline is not something to upset the longerterm trajectory of the market” he noted investors have mostly shrugged off positive earnings surprises from companies that reported results so far according to strategists at bank of america corp moves were on average 13 percentage points larger than implied by the options market but the direction was skewed to the downside “this suggests increased positioning risk and good news having been priced in” bofa strategists led by savita subramanian added some of the main moves in markets   hang seng futures rose 27 as of 714 am tokyo time   the bloomberg dollar spot index was little changed   the euro was little changed at 11066   the japanese yen was little changed at 14144 per dollar   the offshore yuan was little changed at 71870 per dollar   the australian dollar was little changed at 06738   ether was little changed at 185068   the yield on 10year treasuries advanced four basis points to 387 this story was produced with the assistance of bloomberg automation