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•European markets were slightly lower Wednesday morning, as elevated concerns of a tit-for-tat trade war between the world's biggest economies overshadowed a bounce on Wall Street.

The pan-European Stoxx 600 was down around 0.2 percent during early morning deals, with most sectors and major bourses in negative territory.

•Asian share markets faltered on Wednesday as simmering Sino-U.S. trade tensions overshadowed a bounce on Wall Street and left investors reluctant to take positions in anything.

For now, caution was the watchword and MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan spent most of the session dithering either side of flat, and was last off 0.3 percent.

•Japanese stocks edged higher on Wednesday in choppy trade as some automakers rose after they reported strong U.S. sales numbers, helping offset the impact of a stronger yen.

The Nikkei added 0.1 percent to 21,319.55 after traversing positive and negative territory through the session.

•China stocks gave up early gains and ended slightly lower on Wednesday as investors trimmed their equity exposure ahead of the Tomb-sweeping holiday break and as they braced for Beijing’s countermeasures against U.S. tariffs on Chinese exports.

Both the blue-chip CSI300 index and the Shanghai Composite Index dipped 0.2 percent, to 3,854.86 points and 3,131.11 points, respectively.

Reference: Reuters, CNBC