World Shares Are Mostly Lower as Bank of Japan Meets, China Property Shares Fall

BANGKOK—World shares were mostly lower on Monday, while U.S. futures and oil prices edged higher. Germany's DAX slipped 0.3 percent to 16,699.58 and in Paris, the CAC40 fell 0.5 percent to 4,066.69. Britain's FTSE 100 rose 0.2 percent to 7,592.11. The futures for the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average edged 0.1 percent higher. The Bank of Japan began a 2-day meeting that investors are watching for hints of a change to the central bank’s longstanding near-zero interest rate policy. Investors have been speculating for months that rising prices would push Japan's central bank to finally shift away from its lavishly lax…