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·       European stocks were slightly lower Wednesday morning, amid elevated tensions between the U.S. and China over looming trade tariffs and investment restrictions.

The pan-European Stoxx 600 edged down around 0.1 percent during early morning deals, with most sectors and major bourses in negative territory.

·       Asian stocks slipped on Wednesday on heightened anxieties about Sino-U.S. trade tensions ahead Washington's end-of-week deadline to impose tariffs on Chinese imports while the yuan rebounded after China's central bank moved to calm nervous investors.

In Asia, MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan fell 0.25 percent, a day after it hit a nine-month low.

·       Japan’s Nikkei fell for a third straight day on Wednesday, as a slide for U.S. chip makers hit technology shares and sluggish sales pulled down index heavyweight Fast Retailing.

The Nikkei share average ended the day down 0.31 percent at 21,717.04 after dropping as low as 21,604.18.

·       Key Chinese equity indexes were less enthusiastic, flip-flopping for part of the morning around Tuesday’s closing prices before ending the session in negative territory.

The benchmark CSI300 Index was down 0.85 percent by the lunch break, and the Shanghai Composite Index was off 0.68 percent.

 Reference: Reuters, CNBC