Australia Exports declines to -1% in Apr from 1%

While Tokyo traders are at their lunch break and Nikkei is treading water above the 13k mark, Hong-Kong's Hang-Seng opened lower and now sits on a -0.87% loss for the session so far. Mostly all local share markets are in the red today, following US equity markets, with SP500 closing in NY down -1.38%.