China's economic figures for May in the spotlight

REGIONAL markets saw some reprieve from May's slide - due to rekindled US-China trade tensions - to start June on hopes that the US Federal Reserve would subscribe to rate cuts.

With that in mind, investor sentiment over the Fed's possible moves are likely to remain a central theme driving markets this week, especially with a relatively weak US job data reading released last Friday.

Charles Schwab Singapore managing director Greg Baker noted that the weak job data reading "comes on the back of …