France’s CAC 40 added nearly 0.2% in early trading to 6,677.20, while Germany’s DAX lost 0.3% to 15,684.53.
Hong Kong’s Hang Seng jumped 0.9% to 28,801.27, while the Shanghai Composite declined less than 0.1% to 3,525.10.
The Bank of Japan kept its ultra-lax monetary policy intact, as investors had expected.
The economy has begun to explode out of its coma as more widespread vaccinations help the world get closer to normal.