Key Asian stocks ended mixed today. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index declined 1.25 percent, South Korea’s Kospi fell 1.10 percent and China’s Shanghai Composite slipped 0.70 percent.
Whereas Japan’s Nikkei-225 gained 0.66 percent and Singapore’s Straits Times index ended marginally higher.
European markets were also trading mixed today. France’s CAC 40 was trading 0.40 percent higher, Germany’s DAX gained 0.27 percent. While FTSE was down 0.16 percent when reports last came in.