Disappointment pulls down Asian stock exchanges

Disappointment over vague messages about potential future stimuli from the regime in China, combined with selling tendencies on Wall Street, pulls down leading stock indexes in Asia on the week's last trading day.

In China, the composite index in Shanghai and Shenzhen was down 1.5 percent and 1.4 percent, respectively, after a few hours of trading. In Hong Kong, the Hang Seng index was down 1.5 percent.

In Japan, both the Nikkei 225 index and the broader Topix were down, minus 1.1 percent.

In South Korea, which is affected by a political crisis, the Kospi index was however on the plus side, up half a percent.