Asia-Pacific markets rebounded from Friday's sell-off as investors look to fresh data points out of China, Japan and South Korea this week.
On Friday, markets in the region tumbled after Israel launched a strike at Iran, causing stocks to fall and safe-haven assets to climb.
On Monday, China's one-year and five-year loan prime rates were left unchanged at 3.45% and 3.95% respectively. The five-year LPR acts as the peg for most property mortgages.
Hong Kong's Hang Seng index jumped almost 2%. Mainland China's CSI 300 was slipped 0.3% and closed at 3,530.9 after the LPR announcement, making it the only major market down on Monday.
Japan's Nikkei 225 closed 1% higher at 37,438.61, with the broad based Topix seeing a larger gain of 1.38% to end at 2,662.46.
South Korea's Kospi also rose 1.45% to close at 2,629.44, while the small cap Kosdaq advanced 0.46% to end at 845.82.
In Australia, the S&P/ASX 200 started the week higher, closing out 1.08% up at 7,649.20.
On Friday in the U.S., the Nasdaq Composite and S&P 500 fell for a sixth straight session, notching their longest losing streak since October 2022.
The downtrend comes as Nvidia dived, adding to recent market woes tied to geopolitical conflicts and sticky inflation.
In contrast, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.56%, lifted by a rally of more than 6% in American Express following earnings.
— CNBC's Yun Li and Alex Harring contributed to this report.