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Following a rough Monday sell-off, markets are taking a bit of a breather.

Japan’s Nikkei is down 0.4%.

Korea’s Kospi is down 0.1%.

Australia’s S&P/ASX is up 0

Hong Kong’s Hang Seng is up 0.6%.

China’s Shanghai Composite is up 1.0%.

U.S. futures are looking up.  Dow futures are up 32 points.  S&P futures were up 4.

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The Dow rally is (at least so far) not carrying forth in Asia.

After initial gains, both Korea and Japan are now lower.

Here’s a look at the Nikkei, which has quickly gone negative.

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Good start to the day in Asia.

Japan is up 1.3% and Korea’s KOSPI is up just under 1% after that North Korean rocket fail.

Here’s the KOSPI via Stockmaster.in.

Here’s the Nikkei

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Korea’s KOSPI index is the big laggard of the moment. US futures are a bit higher (after a solid day), and Japan’s Nikkei is flat.

But Korea is down 0.9%.

And Korea is a big deal. Why? Well as Morgan Stanley points out, it’s very much like copper in that it’s a good global economic bellweather. Just as copper is sometimes called Dr. Copper (the joke is that it has a PhD in economics), Dr. KOSPI is also apparently a thing.

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After major selling in Europe and the US, the selling continues in Asia.

Australia is down 0.7%, and Japan is down 1.0%.

US futures are up a little bit after hours, helped a little bit, perhaps, by strong Alcoa earnings after the bell.

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