Joyful Shot on the Stock Exchange in Hong Kong

The leading Asian stock exchanges mostly traded up in the initial Monday trading.

Hong Kong's Hang Seng index was just before lunch break up a whole 2.4 percent.

Even in Tokyo, the market mood was at the top. The Nikkei 225 index pointed to a 0.9 percent gain, the broader Topix index was up 0.8 percent.

In Shanghai, however, it was not as positive, the composite index traded down 0.4 percent.