Asia-Pacific mostly in the red

FXstreet.com (Barcelona) - With the USD index pressing against fresh 1-month lows in the 81.5 area, local share markets in the Asia-Pacific start the week with big losses overall, lead by the Nikkei index down at the moment more than -2.5% following worse than expected Japan retail sales data.

US SP500 futures also trade near session lows, while Hong-Kong's Hang-Seng is down -0.41%, the Shanghai index a -1.03%, and the Korean Kospi a -0.38%. Meanwhile the Australian ASX is still in the positive marginally by +0.09%.