Key Asian stocks ended mixed today. South Korea’s Kospi gained 2.11 percent, Japan’s Nikkei-225 jumped 1.54 percent and China’s Shanghai Composite rose 0.22 percent. On the other hand, Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index slipped 0.54 per cent and Singapore’s Straits Times Index fell 0.10 percent.

Major European markets were trading higher today. London’s FTSE was trading 1.07 percent up Germany’s DAX was 0.74 percent higher and France’s CAC was 0.41 percent up when the reports last came in.