Asian shares higher ahead of Russia-Ukraine peace talks

FILE - A trader, right, talks to a pedestrian outside the New York Stock exchange, Jan. 14, 2022, in the Financial District. Stocks are off to a mixed start on Wall Street Monday, March 28, 2022 as gains for some big technology companies are offset by weakness in energy stocks as crude oil prices fall sharply. The S&P 500 was moving between small gains and losses in the early going. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was off 0.4% and the tech-heavy Nasdaq added 0.8%. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, file)