Losing steam…Asian stocks fail to match Wall Street’s Friday rally after a blow-out U.S. jobs print which saw the Dow Jones soar to a two-month high. Hundreds of thousands of pro-democracy protestors stage a huge rally in Hong Kong to peacefully mark six months of demonstrations against the Chinese government. The turmoil continues in France where strikes against a radical pension overhaul spill into a fifth day causing travel chaos nationwide. And focus remains on oil markets after Opec and its allies pledge to deepen production cuts. Saudi Arabia’s energy minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman tells CNBC in a First On interview that the timing of the move has nothing to do with the listing of Saudi Aramco, as the kingdom prepares to stage the largest IPO in history. And in the UK, polls place Prime Minister Boris Johnson on track to win a Tory majority in this Thursday’s pivotal general election.  

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