Waiting on Asia's Exchanges

The leading Asian stock exchanges largely opened with small movements after Wall Street closed sideways.

After a few hours of trading, Tokyo's Nikkei 225 and Topix indexes both hovered around zero.

In Hong Kong, the Hang Seng index pointed slightly upwards, 0.2.

Shanghai's composite index grew by 0.5, while the composite index in Shenzhen added 1.1 percent.