Most major stock market indexes in Asia traded lower on Wednesday with China's economic growth emerging as a primary worry for investors, who await the world's second-largest economy to release its manufacturing data on Thursday. The looming economic indicators set to be released on Wednesday, including Germany's inflation figure and the United States' Gross Domestic Product are also drawing close attention from traders.
At 3:07 am CET, Hong Kong's Hang Seng went down by 0.87%, as Japan's Nikkei 225 and Australian S&P/ASX 200 respectively added 0.20% and 0.46%.
South Korea's Kospi Composite lost 0.13% at 3:08 am CET and, in mainland China, the Shanghai Composite fell by 0.17% at 3:09 am CET, with the Shenzhen Composite down by 0.32% a minute later. At 3:11 am CET, the dollar traded 0.42% lower against the yen to go for ¥146.8430.
