* Asian stock markets : https://tmsnrt.rs/2zpUAr4
* MSCI ex-Japan rises
* Wall Street makes new records
* 'Reflation trade' supports bond yields, oil
By David Henry
Feb 9 (Reuters) - Global stocks were poised to rise again on Tuesday in Asian trading after another record-setting day on Wall Street.
{{178|Japan's NiNikkei 225 futures NKc1 rose 0.15%, e-mini futures for the S&P 500 EScv1 rose 0.04% and Australian S&P/ASX 200 futures YAPcm1 rose 0.12% in early trading.
MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan .MIAPJ0000PUS was last up 0.04% at 720.5.
The early action came after another day of so-called reflation trades around the world in which global markets bid up stocks, cryptocurrencies, oil and gold while U.S. Treasury yields held near 11-month highs and the dollar steadied.
Expectations have been building that inflation will pick up as governments and central banks continue massive spending and easy money policies until officials are certain that their economies will recover from the coronavirus pandemic.
"Reflation on the back of U.S. fiscal stimulus and positive vaccine news remains the major theme for markets," strategists at National Australia Bank wrote.
Wall Street reached all-time closing highs on Monday as the Nasdaq Composite .IXIC added nearly 1% and the S&P 500 .SPX and the Dow Jones Industrial Average .DJI gained about 0.75%.
Cryptocurrency bitcoin BTC=BTSP rose more than 15% on Monday to another record high of $45,000 after Tesla Inc TSLA.O said it had invested around $1.5 billion in the virtual currency and expects to accept it as payment for its cars in the future. prices rose more than 2% on Monday to their highest levels in more than a year, with Brent LCOc1 nudging past $60 a barrel. is a sense that the glut of oil supply is disappearing more rapidly than anybody thought possible," said Phil Flynn, senior analyst at Price Futures Group in Chicago. "There seems to be a paradigm shift in the market."
Spot gold XAU= jumping more than 1% on Monday to $1,830.17 an ounce as expectations of a large U.S. economic stimulus package bolstered its appeal as an inflation hedge. dollar index =USD which stabilized on Monday after tripping at the end of last week on a weaker-than-expected jobs report, and was last down a bare 0.04% at 90.964.
Against the yen, JPY= the dollar was flat at 105.22.
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