Asian share market ended mixed today. Hong Kong's Hang Seng fell 1.4 percent, China's Shanghai Composite index lost 0.7 percent and Japan Nikkei-225 slipped 0.3 percent while marginal gains were registered by South Korea's Kospi index at 0.1 percent and Singapore's Straits Times at 0.03 percent.
 
European markets were also trading mixed in intra-day trade. Germany's DAX rose 0.4 percent while London's FTSE-100  lost 0.5 percent and France's CAC-40 was trading 0.4 percent down when the report last came in.