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Japan’s Nikkei 225 index slid 0.8% to 63,492.99. 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South Korea’s memory chipmaker SK Hynix fell 6.4%. Samsung Electronics lost 4.1%. Japan's chip equipment manufacturer Tokyo Electron dropped 1%, while Japanese memory maker Kioxia Holdings also sank 6.4%.\nTaiwan’s Taiex fell 0.7%. Shares of Taiwan's leading AI chipmaker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. dropped 1.2%.\nHong Kong’s Hang Seng rose 0.4% to 24,904.46. The Shanghai Composite index edged down less than 0.1% to 3,885.33. In Australia, the S&P/ASX 200 was up 0.1% to 8,749.90.\nOil prices moved higher early Monday as U.S.-Iran tensions remained escalated while Iran-backed Houthi rebels stepped up attacks on Saudi Arabia.\nBrent crude, the international standard, rose 2.8% to $107.55 per barrel. It was at roughly $72 a barrel before the start of the war in Iran in late February.\nBenchmark U.S. crude was up 2.9% to $102.90 per barrel.\nWhile the prospect of a de-escalation of war in Iran and the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, a crucial waterway for global oil transport, may have dimmed, wrote ING commodities strategists Warren Patterson and Ewa Manthey in a commentary Monday, the situation is still fluid and “sizeable” volumes of oil have still been moving through the strait.\nOn Friday, Wall Street’s benchmark S&P 500 gained 0.9%, ending its four-day losing streak. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 1%, and the technology-heavy Nasdaq composite climbed 1%.\nInvestors are also monitoring this week’s Federal Reserve meeting, in which Fed policymakers could raise rates as inflation remains above the Fed’s 2% target.\nGrowing inflationary worries following the Iran war-caused energy shock and rising U.S. government debt have fueled a sell-off of government bonds and put pressure on U.S. Treasury yields.\nThe yield on the 10-year U.S. Treasury was at 4.96%, up from 4.95% last Thursday despite the U.S. Treasury Department’s expanded buyback operations meant to stabilize the bond market.\nIn other dealings, the U.S. dollar rose to 154.34 Japanese yen from 153.58 yen. 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