Asia shares rise as investors look ahead to Fed meeting

Children returning from school and wearing protective masks running past an electronic board showing Japan's Nikkei average outside a brokerage on Monday (Sept 14,2020). Asian shares rose on Monday, despite the roller-coaster ride that Wall Street ended with last week, as traders awaited cues from the US central bank expected later in the week. - Reuters

TOKYO, Sept 14 (AP): Asian shares rose Monday, despite the roller-coaster ride that Wall Street ended with last week, as traders awaited cues from the US central bank expected later in the week.

Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party picked a new leader, who will by definition become the prime minister because of the party's control over the more powerful lower house of Parliament. Yoshihide Suga, now the government spokesman, has said he will continue Shinzo Abe's "Abenomics” policies of easy lending and deregulation.