Mostly green in the Asia-Pacific

FXstreet.com (Barcelona) - Despite the soft day in US equity markets, with SP500 closing in NY down -0.15%, overall in Asia green lights dominate across the board.

The Nikkei index is climbing more than +1% above the 13700 points, helped on not as bad as expected core machinery orders in Japan, while Hong-Kong's Hang-Seng is also higher by +0.41%. The Australian ASX and the Korean Kospi are both higher too by +0.26% and +0.88% respectively.

The negative note comes from the Shanghai Composite index that is currently under water by a small -0.18% near session lows.