Welcome to Mint live blog. Track this space for latest stock market updates. Asian stocks were mixed on Tuesday as investors assessed prospects for the deployment of the US military to quell social unrest.
Singapore's SGX Nifty was little changed suggesting a flat opening for Indian equities. Topix index rose 1%. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 Index fell 0.2%.
South Korea’s Kospi index rose 0.7%. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index rose 0.5%. Shanghai Composite was little changed. US stocks posted gains on Monday as signs of US economic recovery helped offset jitters over increasingly violent social unrest amid an ongoing pandemic and rising US-China tensions.