SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The dollar found support on Monday and a rally in riskier currencies lost steam, as investors braced for more dire news on the fallout from the coronavirus and governments across the globe moved only cautiously toward an economic re-start.

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Caution gripped Asian share markets on Monday on expectations a busy week of corporate earnings reports and economic data will drive home the damage done by the global virus lockdown, while U.S. crude prices took an early spill.

Asian stocks climbed with U.S. and European futures amid tentative steps to restart the American economy and progress on the fight against the coronavirus. Traders looked past Chinese data showing its economy contracted for the first time in decades.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New federal guidelines to jumpstart the U.S. economy from its coronavirus shutdown recommend that states have a 14-day “downward trajectory” in coronavirus cases before beginning a three-phase process of re-opening, according to a White House document.

BEIJING (Reuters) - China’s industrial output fell a less steeper-than-expected 1.1% in March from a year earlier, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed on Friday, as the coronavirus crisis and strict containment measures severely disrupted the world’s second-largest economy.

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The dollar fell on Friday as a news report on signs of success in a COVID-19 treatment drug trial as well as early plans to re-open the U.S. economy drove fresh optimism and risk appetite.