Sept 30 (Reuters) - Australian shares are expected to drop on Monday, as reports that U.S. President Donald Trump's administration was mulling delisting Chinese companies from local stock exchanges soured risk sentiment.
The move is part of a broader effort to curb U.S. investment in Chinese companies, sources told Reuters on Friday, and it threatened to further increase tensions in the damaging trade spat between the two nations. local share price index futures YAPcm1 fell 0.2%, a 33.1-point discount to the underlying S&P/ASX 200 index .AXJO close. The benchmark rose 0.6% on Friday.
New Zealand's benchmark S&P/NZX 50 index .NZ50 was little changed in early trade.