Four out of five major Asian indices ended in Red today. China’s Shanghai Composite and Hong Kong’s Hang Seng slipped more than one per cent, Japan’s Nekkei lost 0.69 per cent and South Korea’s Kospi was down by 0.04 per cent; whereas Singapore’s Straits Times Index added close to one per cent.

Major European Indices were trading in Green as London’s FTSE was trading up 0.4 per cent, Germany’s DAX was trading 0.8 per cent gain and France’s CAC 40 was trading more than one per cent jump, when reports last came in.