Visitors stands in front of an electronic ticker at the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE), operated by Japan Exchange Group Inc. (JPX), in Tokyo, Japan, on Monday, Nov. 30, 2020.
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Shares in the Asia-Pacific region were mostly lower on Monday as concerns over aggressive Fed hikes reemerged, but Chinese markets rose after China cut its benchmark lending rates.
The Shanghai Composite was 0.61% higher at 3,277.79, and the Shenzhen Component gained 1.19% to 12,505.68.
China's central bank cut its one-year benchmark lending rate by 5 basis points to 3.65% and its five-year rate by 15 basis points to 4.3%.
"We think the asymmetric cuts … aim to support long-term borrowing and in particular mortgages, as overall credit supply remains ample while credit demand is sluggish," analysts said in a Goldman Sachs Economic Research note Monday.
Elsewhere in Asia, Hong Kong's Hang Seng index was down 0.6% in the final hour of trade.
The Nikkei 225 in Japan pared some losses but was down 0.47% at 28,794.5 and the Topix index slipped 0.1% to1,992.59.
South Korea's Kospi shed 1.21% to 2,462.5 and the Kosdaq lost 2.25% to 795.87.
The S&P/ASX 200 in Australia dipped 0.95% to end the session at 7,046.9.
MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside of Japan was 0.95% lower.
"Recent Fed speakers have been stressing the message that more rate hikes are coming given the fight against inflation has not yet been won," Rodrigo Catril, a currency strategist at National Australia Bank wrote in a Monday note.
Investors are looking ahead to the Fed's annual Jackson Hole economic symposium which begins Thursday stateside.
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