Asian markets end lower again

Asian markets ended lower again today, as a spike in coronavirus infections beyond mainland China threatened to damage global economic growth, forcing investors to dump risk assets. So Japan's Nikkei-225 index and China's Shanghai Composite index fell 0.8 percent, each; Hong Kong's Hang Seng index slipped 0.7 percent; South Korea's Kospi index dropped 1.3 percent and Singapore's Straits Times index declined 1.1 percent. In more news on coronavirus, bo...