Nikkei index below 14000

FXstreet.com (Barcelona) - The Nikkei index today has posted fresh 3-week lows at 13879 in early Tokyo trade, last at 13913 for the lunch break, down -2.75% for the day, adding more than -13% since past Thursday's fresh 5.5-year highs shy of the 16k points mark.

With the exception of Shanghai Composite and Korean Kospi, which are slightly in the positive with +0.12% and +0.25% respectively, all other local share markets are in the red, with Hong-Kong's Hang-Seng down -0.11%, and Australian ASX lower by -1.54%.