In Asia today, the Hang Seng closed the morning down 209.42 points at 20,260.17,
while the Nikkei was recently down 127.64 points at 17,544.92.
New York's main oil futures contract, light sweet crude for delivery in July was up
12 cents at $63.27 a barrel after falling $2.05 to finish at $63.15 per barrel overnight.