Soft equities in the Asia-Pacific

FXstreet.com (Barcelona) - Local share markets in the Asia-Pacific are trading in the negative overall following the slight decline in US SP500 index, with the exception of the Australian ASX index that gains a +0.27%, and the Korean Kospi that is currently breaking at even.

The Nikkei index is losing some -0.52% shy of the 14700 points mark in the negative all session long, while Hong-Kong's Hang-Seng is down -0.23% and Shanghai Composite index is leading the way lower down -1.27% following bad domestic PMI data.