All major Asian stocks ended in red today; Singapore’s Straits Times index & South Korea’s Kospi both, declined 0.8%

All major Asian stocks ended in the red today. Singapore’s Straits Times index and South Korea’s Kospi both, declined 0.8 percent. Japan’s Nikkei-225 fell half a percent and China’s Shanghai Composite slipped 0.4 percent. While Hong Kong’s Hang Seng ended flat.

In intra-day trade, European markets were trading in green. France’s CAC-40 gained 0.4 percent, Germany’s DAX rose 0.3 percent and London’s FTSE-100 was 0.1 percent up when reports last came in.