Early Monday Asian Markets Mostly Down.--

As I write, it's still Sunday night in the US, but it's Monday morning in Asia.

Asian stock market trading so far:

^N225 Nikkei 225: DOWN (1.00%)
^SSEC Shanghai Composite: UP (1.95%)
^STI Straits Times: UP (0.21%)
^AORD All Ordinaries, DOWN: (0.43%)
^HSI Hang Seng: DOWN (0.19%)
^JKSE Jakarta Composite: DOWN (0.01%)
^NZ50 NZSE 50: DOWN (0.37%)
^KS11 Seoul Composite: DOWN (0.20%)
^TWII Taiwan Weighted: DOWN (1.10%)

UPDATE: At 1AM Eastern Time on Monday morning, 6 of the open Asian markets are down, while 4 are now up.

2D UPDATE: Monday Morning, 9:50AM ET. Eight of 11 Asian markets ended Monday UP. So far in Europe, 9 of 11 open markets are also UP. So far in the US, both the Dow and the S&P 500 are marginally UP, though expect a lot of volatility in either direction.