Stock market today: Asian shares are mostly higher as Chinese markets reopen after Lunar New Year

Shares were mostly higher in Asia after Chinese markets reopened Monday from a long Lunar New Year holiday. U.S. futures rose slightly while oil prices declined. Hong Kong's Hang Seng fell 0.8% to 16,212.05 on heavy selling of technology and property shares despite a flurry of announcements by Chinese state banks of plans for billions of dollars' worth of loans for property projects.

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