Mostly Upwards on Asian Stock Exchanges

The development pointed mostly upwards in the initial Wednesday trading on Asia's leading stock exchanges.

In Tokyo, the Nikkei 225 index was up 0.1 percent, while the broader Topix index was up 0.6 percent shortly after lunch.

Hong Kong's Hang Seng index was simultaneously up 0.2 percent.

In Shanghai and Shenzhen, the composite indexes were traded below zero, at minus 0.1 and 0.2 percent, respectively.

South Korea's Kospi was up 0.8 percent.