· European equities moved lower on Tuesday morning after a sharp sell-off on Wall Street.
The pan-European Stoxx 600 was 0.6 percent lower with every sector moving onto negative ground.
· Asian shares slipped on Tuesday amid escalating trade tensions and concerns about tech firms, although regional index declines were modest compared with those of their Wall Street counterparts as investors focused on global growth prospects.
MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan fell 0.35 percent on Tuesday, compared with losses of more than 2 percent on each of the three Wall Street indices overnight.
· Japanese stocks fell on Tuesday, led by tech firms and makers of electronic components after U.S. tech stocks tumbled overnight on resurgent trade war fears, while Monex jumped after saying it might buy cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck.
The Nikkei ended 0.5 percent lower, at 21,292.29.
· China stocks ended lower on Tuesday, amid resurgent trade war fears after Beijing unveiled retaliatory trade measures against the United States.
At the close, the Shanghai Composite index was down 0.8 percent at 3,136.63, while the blue-chip CSI300 index declined 0.6 percent to 3,862.48.
Reference: Reuters,CNBC
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