Investors to digest effects of US job data

ASIAN equity markets, including Singapore's, have much to contend with to start the week.

Investors will be digesting the latest information on the two big needle movers on sentiment in the last two months: the prospect of US Federal Reserve rate cuts and the ongoing US-China trade conflict.

Last Friday, Wall Street stocks dipped after the S&P 500 wrapped a three-session run to close at record levels.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 43.88 points, or 0.16 per cent, to 26,922.12, the S&P 500 lost 5.41 points, or 0.18…