Key Asian stocks ended mixed today. Japan’s Nikkei-225 jumped 0.46 percent, Singapore’s Straits Times Index added 0.29 percent and South Korea’s Kospi was marginally up by 0.11 percent. Whereas, Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index slipped 0.22 percent and China’s Shanghai Composite fell 0.07 percent.

Major European markets exhibited mixed behaviour. London’s FTSE-100 was marginally higher. While, Germany’s DAX was trading 0.16 percent down and  France’s CAC slipped 0.04 percent, when the reports last came in.