Key Asian stocks ended mixed today except South Korea’s Kospi, which gained 2.11 per cent. Japan’s Nikkei-225 declined 1.66 per cent, Singapore’s Straits Times Index fell 1.09 per cent, Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index slipped 0.90 per cent and China’s Shanghai Composite cracked by 0.62 per cent.
Major European markets were trading higher today. France’s CAC was trading 0.89 per cent up,
London’s FTSE was 0.56 per cent higher and Germany’s DAX was 0.54 per cent up when the reports last came in.