Asia in the red following the US

FXstreet.com (Barcelona) - While Tokyo traders are at their lunch break and Nikkei is treading water above the 13k mark, Hong-Kong's Hang-Seng opened lower and now sits on a -0.87% loss for the session so far. Mostly all local share markets are in the red today, following US equity markets, with SP500 closing in NY down -1.38%.

Australian ASX is also down -0.70%, while Korean Kospi -1.52%, and Shanghai Composite is down -0.47%. Nikkei index posted a fresh 9-week lows at 12896 in very early Tokyo trade, almost -20% off recent fresh 5.5-year highs shy of the 16000 points mark less than 3 weeks ago.