Major Asian indices fell today. Japan’s Nikkei lost more than 2.2 percent, Hong Kong’s Hang Seng declined over half percent, South Korea’s Kospi dropped almost half percent, China’s Shanghai Composite slipped 0.25 percent, and Singapore’s Straits Times index ended nearly flat. Meanwhile, major European indices were trading in negative territory. Germany’s DAX slipped more than one and a half percent, France’s CAC 40 dropped over 0.9 percent, and London’s FTSE 100 was trading over 0.4 percent down when reports last came in.