Equities blood bath in Asia-Pacific

FXstreet.com (Barcelona) - With Chinese markets opening for first time in the week after a long holiday period, all local share markets are in the deep red, with Nikkei index leading the way down losing more than -6% around the 12450 points at certain point in time.

Hang-Seng index is down last -3.01%, Shanghai Composite -3.14%, Korean Kospi -1.17%, and Australian ASX -1.02% after a mild domestic jobs data showing strong job creation in the mid term in Australia. US equity futures show now SP500 at session lows down -0.44%.