Asian stock markets closed lower on Tuesday with oil as Aussie bonds rise before Fed. Japan's benchmark index, Nikkei 225 declined 36.76 points or 0.23 percent to settle at 15,911.53. China's benchmark index, Shanghai Composite lost 42.58 points or 1.82 percent to close at 2,296.56.
Hong Kong's Hang Seng lost 220.98 points or 0.91 percent to end at 24,136.01. Singapore's Straits Times declined 39.85 points or 1.2 percent to end at 3,272.62. South Korea's KOSPI rose 7.10 points or 0.35 percent to end at 2,042.92. Taiwan's TAIEX lost 84.06 points or 0.91 percent to end at 9,133.40.