Key Asian stocks were trading mixed today. China’s Shanghai Composite Index gained 2.09 percent, Singapore’s Straits Times index added 0.31 percent and Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index was marginally higher. However, Japan’s Nikkei-225 declined 1.34 percent and South Korea’s Kospi plunged 0.98 percent. All major European markets were trading in Green. France’s CAC was 1.38 percent higher, Germany’s DAX were trading 0.72 percent up, London’s FTSE was 0.60 percent higher when reports last came in.