Asian stocks advanced on Monday as Friday's resilient U.S. jobs data and the Senate passing the debt ceiling bill helped ease fears of a recession. Encouraging service sector readings from China and Japan also boosted sentiment.
While U.S. job growth was almost as twice as strong as expected in May, smaller wage gains fueled hopes inflationary pressures are weakening and the Fed will pause interest-rate hikes.
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