EFTA Document EFTA01453225

Turning to Asia, the news flow from China has been fairly mixed overnight but the price action is more unambiguous with falls in the Shanghai Copper futures (-0.9%), HSCEI (-0.9%) and Hang Seng (-1.3%). The latter has been weighed by a sharp fall in Tencent (-5.1%) one of the world's largest internet companies, on reports that the PBoC has called for a halt to virtual credit cards operated by the company. China worries have also sent Australian mining stocks down 2.3% and the Nikkei is dow