August 21, 2024 6:11 PM.
In Asian market three out of five indices are in red today. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index fell 0.69, China’s Shanghai Composite Index slipped 0.35 and Japan’s Nikkei-225 declined 0.29 percent.
Conversely, South Korea’s Kospi increased 0.17 percent and Singapore’s Straits Times index added 0.10 percent.
All three major European Indices was trading in positive territory. France’s CAC 40 was trading up by 0.34 percent, Germany’s DAX rose 0.32 percent and London’s FTSE-100 was trading up by 0.21 percent, when reports last came in.
Major US markets were trading in red. The Nasdaq Composite slipped 0.33 per cent, the S&P 500 fell 0.2 per cent and the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down by 0.15 per cent.